slip
v. 滑倒; 脱落; 溜走; 退步; 陷入
n. 差错; 便条; 摔跤; 衬裙; 守场员
If you slip, you accidentally slide and lose your balance.
He had slipped on an icy pavement...
他在一条结了冰的人行道上滑了一跤。
Be careful not to slip.
小心,别滑倒了。
If something slips, it slides out of place or out of your hand.
His glasses had slipped...
他的眼镜滑掉了。
The hammer slipped out of her grasp.
锤子从她的手中滑落。
If you slip somewhere, you go there quickly and quietly.
Amy slipped downstairs and out of the house...
埃米偷偷下楼溜出了房子。
She slipped into the driving seat and closed the door.
她溜进了驾驶座,关上了门。
If you slip something somewhere, you put it there quickly in a way that does not attract attention.
I slipped a note under Louise's door...
我偷偷在路易斯的房门下面塞了一张便条。
He found a coin in his pocket and slipped it into her collecting tin...
他摸到口袋里有一枚硬币,便匆匆丢进她的讨钱罐。
If you slip something to someone, you give it to them secretly.
Robert had slipped her a note in school...
罗伯特在学校里偷偷地塞给她一张纸条。
She looked round before pulling out a package and slipping it to the man.
她四下里看了看,然后拿出一个包裹,偷偷地塞给了这个男人。
To slip into a particular state or situation means to pass gradually into it, in a way that is hardly noticed.
It amazed him how easily one could slip into a routine...
他惊异地发现人很容易在不知不觉中因循守旧起来。
There was a 50-50 chance that the economy could slip back into recession.
经济再次陷入衰退的可能性是 50%。
If something slips to a lower level or standard, it falls to that level or standard.
Shares slipped to 117p...
股价跌至 117 便士。
The club had slipped to the bottom of Division Four...
该俱乐部已经跌为丁级组的最后一名。
If you slip into or out of clothes or shoes, you put them on or take them off quickly and easily.
She slipped out of the jacket and tossed it on the couch...
她麻利地脱下夹克,扔在了沙发上。
I slipped off my woollen gloves.
我迅速地脱下了毛绒手套。
A slip is a small or unimportant mistake.
We must be well prepared, there must be no slips.
我们必须好好准备,不能出任何差错。
A slip of paper is a small piece of paper.
...little slips of paper he had torn from a notebook...
他从笔记本上撕下来的一张张小纸片
I put her name on the slip.
我在纸条上记下了她的名字。
A slip is a thin piece of clothing that a woman wears under her dress or skirt.
If you refer to someone as a slip of a girl or a slip of a boy, you mean they are small, thin, and young.
He's a mere slip of a lad compared to his brother...
跟他哥哥一比,他不过是个小毛孩。
She was just a slip of a thing.
她才是个小丫头。
If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
He gave reporters the slip by leaving at midnight.
他在午夜时分离开,避开了记者的追踪。
If you let slip information, you accidentally tell it to someone, when you wanted to keep it secret.
I bet he let slip that I'd gone to America.
我可以打赌,是他走漏了我去了美国的消息。
If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
The reason for my visit had obviously slipped his mind.
他显然已经忘掉了我的来意。
1. a socially awkward or tactless act
2. a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
3. potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
4. a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
5. a young and slender person;
6. a place where a craft can be made fast
7. an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall;
8. a slippery smoothness;
9. artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
10. a small sheet of paper;
11. a woman's sleeveless undergarment
12. bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow;
13. an unexpected slide
14. a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
15. the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
1. move stealthily;
2. insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly;
3. move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner;
4. get worse;
5. move smoothly and easily
6. to make a mistake or be incorrect
7. pass on stealthily;
8. pass out of one's memory
9. move out of position;
error, fault, blunder, flaw, mistake, shortcoming, defect, slip
这些名词均有"错误"或"缺点"之意。
slip, glide, slide, skid
这些动词均可表示"滑动"之意。
give someone the slip
(非正式)避开某人;甩掉某人
let something slip
无意中讲出
(古)放开(狗的绳索)
let something slip through one's fingers (或 grasp)
对…失控;失去
slip of the pen
笔误;口误
slip through the net
there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip
(谚)杯到嘴边还会失手(指万事难以十拿九稳,事情往往功败垂成)
a slip of a ——
瘦小的
slip away
(婉)安详地死去
slip something over on
(非正式,旧)欺骗;蒙骗
slip up
(非正式)出差错
give (someone) the slip&I{【俚语】}
逃脱…的追逐
let slip
出于无心地说出
slip one over on【非正式用语】
蒙蔽;欺骗
One single slip brings eternal regret , and looking back, your whole life has passed away.
一失足成千古恨, 再回头已过百年身.
Don't let the good chance slip.
良机勿失.
He tried to slip past the ticket collector at the dock.
他设法从码头上收票人身边溜过去.
It would be foolish to let such an opportunity slip; it's a chance of a lifetime.
坐失这个良机, 那是太傻了,这是一生中难得的机会.
From now on no one is to mention that slip of paper.
以后,谁也不准提到这张纸条的事情.