2walk a tightropeto be in a difficult situation in which something bad could happen if you make a mistake 走钢丝〔比喻处境困难,如有差错就会发生不好的事〕
I feel as though I’m walking a tightrope between success and failure.
我感到自己就像走钢丝一样,在成功与失败之间摇摆。
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walk a tightrope• All organizations especially those that are growing, walk a tightrope between stability and change, tradition and revision.• It's like walking a tightrope in size-15 wellies.• But he's been doing very well at it despite having to learnterrifying new skills, like walking a tightrope.• Neuroticswalk a tightrope from one catastrophe to the next.• The Profitboss walks a tightrope between research and risk, between research and opportunity.• The rare person who on the rare occasion wants to be wholly neutral has to walk a tightrope.• She sometimes felt she was walking a tightrope, wanting to be friendly with Therese, and yet terrified of upsetting Karl.
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tightrope• In the old days he could've swallowed a six-pack in half an hour and then gone out and walked a tightrope.• It's like walking a tightrope in size-15 wellies.• But he's been doing very well at it despite having to learnterrifying new skills, like walking a tightrope.• She and Edwards went first on a two-person, help-your-buddy tightrope walk 30 feet above the ground.• But Blondin had made the horizontaltightrope his own.• The Chancellor had a narrowtightrope to walk and he managed to please a variety of people.• For Farini the Great, the tightrope was only an adventurous way station on a roller-coaster journey through life.