单词tightrope
n.: （尤指马戏团表演用的）绷紧的绳索
网络: 黑色手铐；绷紧的绳索或钢丝；拉紧的绳索
（尤指马戏团表演用的）绷紧的绳索，绷紧的钢丝:
a rope or wire that is stretched tightly high above the ground and that performers walk along, especially in a circus
身处困境；如履薄冰:
to be in a difficult situation in which you do not have much freedom of action and need to be extremely careful about what you do
冒险走过
(杂技中走索用的)紧绷索
高空缆索
复数：tightropes
An Armenian tightrope walker steadies himself with his balance pole as he prepared to perform a trick.
一位亚美尼亚走钢丝演员在表演前用他的平衡杆支撑着身体。
Authorities have to walk a tightrope trying to stop the boom getting further out of hand while trying to keep it from collapsing.
当局都不得不走钢丝，努力在防止崩溃的同时不让繁荣失去控制。
"If you become a tightrope walker and walk across the air, " Said the bunny, " I will become a little boy And run into a house"
“如果你变成走钢丝的人在空中行走，”小兔子说，“我就变成小男孩跑回家去。”
"If you go flying on a flying trapeze, " said his mother, "I will be a tightrope walker, and I will walk across the air to you. "
“如果你去做空中飞人，”他的妈妈说，“我就做一个走钢丝的人，我会穿过空气，走到你身边。”
The Bush administration has been walking a diplomatic tightrope throughout the Turkish cross-border offensive, which began a week ago.
土耳其在一周前开始了跨越边境的攻势，布什政府在这段时间里一直在谨慎地开展外交工作。
From tightrope walkers to parachutes, the Falls sees many adventurous individuals willing to risk it all for a few moments of glory.
从走钢索到玩跳伞，许多喜欢刺激的人来到尼加拉瓜瀑布冒大险，只为求一刹那的荣耀。
Sometimes they put us on a pedestal that feels more like a tightrope -- so narrow that we"re bound to fall off eventually.
他们有时把我们奉若神明，让我们感到是在走钢丝，这么窄的立足点最终必定会摔下来。
The children were breathless as they watched the tightrope act.
孩子们在看走绳索表演时呼吸都屏住了。
There was gasp of horror from the spectator as he fell off the tightrope.
他从拉紧的绳索上摔了下来，观众吓得直喘气。
It is a question of being a tightrope walker or not.
这是一个是否算得上钢索演员的问题。