每日一词130 slippery slope
2019-03-24 本文已影响1人
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学习内容基于现象英语的每日一词
这是我第一次注意到这个词组,先看看字典、每日一词,再研究下例子。
学习
释义
- 英英
a process or series of events that is hard to stop or control once it has begun and that usually leads to worse or more difficult things - 英汉
从英英释义可以得知,它表示“滑向深渊的事件”。
例句
他的所做所 为导致他走向毁灭,可以说
His behavior will lead him down a slippery slope to ruin.
它还有个比较常见的搭配:be on a/the slippery slope to something。表示某人/某事“在……的过程中”。这个国家正走向革命之路,可以说:
The country is on the slippery slope to revolution.
作业
翻译
他的傲慢与固执将注定他走向失败。
His arrogance and obstinacy will lead him down a slippery slope to failure.
造句
She is on the slippery slope to self-destruction. (她在自我毁灭。)