take up the slack

take up the slack

美 　英

• un.调紧钢索；收紧间隙
• 网络拉紧松弛部分；收紧松弛的绳索；翻译过来就是这个意思

英汉解释

un.	1. 调紧钢索 2. 收紧间隙

英英解释

na.	1. to improve an organization or system by using people, equipment, and money in a more effective way 2. to do the things that someone else is not able or willing to do 3. to pull a rope so that it is no longer loose

例句

The only way we could have avoided a prolonged slump would have been for government spending to take up the slack.

我们避免衰退持续的方法是，政府应收紧财政支出。

Compounding matters, the industry will no longer be able to rely on a rising population of new "wealth accumulators" to take up the slack.

更为严重的是，基金管理业将再也无法依赖不断增加的新“财富积累者”来填补亏空。

And there is nothing in the European data suggesting that the private sector will be ready to take up the slack in less than two years.

欧洲提供的数字里没有任何东西显示私营部门在不到两年内可以拉紧这根已经松弛的绳子。

That is, there are many energy signals, and maybe you can affect one of them, but then others seem to take up the slack.

这就是说如果体内产生了许多新陈代谢新号，而可能你能影响其中一个，那么其它的新号的活动将会大大减弱。

Thermal plants cannot be used to take up the slack. They have been neglected.

火力发电站无法被用来弥补发电量的缺口，长期以来一直遭到漠视。

The American consumer is faltering, British shoppers are heavily in debt and anxious Germans are unlikely to take up the slack.

美国消费者蹒跚不前，英国人资不抵债，而且看来焦虑的德国人也不打算抗下这副担子。

There is the resentment of those left behind to take up the slack, especially where fat advances have been paid.

落后者们在奋力追赶的时候会心存怨恨，特别是在已经提前付出很大代价的情况下。

The tractor take up the slack and pull the trailer out of the mud.

拖拉机拉紧拖缆把拖车从泥中拉了出来。

Were Japan's recovery broad-based, an export slowdown would matter less, because domestic consumption would take up the slack.

如果日本经济是在广泛基础上复苏的话，出口下滑并不会带来太大问题，因为国内消费能把不足补上。

A Buffer is an "extra" that helps take up the slack until things get back to normal.

“缓冲”是一个外力，可以给予我们缓和的余地，直到事情恢复正常。

He hopes the United States, the world's top exporter of wheat, will take up the slack in global supply.

他希望美国这个世界小麦出口大国能够填补全球供应出现的缺口。

When losses started to mount, asset-backed issuance dried up (see chart), forcing governments to take up the slack.

随着损耗的日益增加，资产支持证券的发行量开始枯竭（如图表所示），因而政府不得不着手解决该市场的低迷。

Now, with the American consumer laid up indefinitely, the world has turned to China to take up the slack.

现在，在美国消费者一筹莫展之时，整个世界都将求助的目光投向中国。

It probably means there have to be more consumptions and investments in asia to take up the slack.

这也许意味着亚洲内部会有更多的消费，投资来扭转衰退的局面。

Other steel mills are likely to take up the slack, according to Sam Walsh, head of Rio Tinto's Australian-based iron-ore operations.

力拓驻澳大利亚的铁矿石业务负责人沃尔什（SamWalsh）说，其它钢铁厂可能填补这个空缺。

When construction, exports and investment plunged, nothing could take up the slack.

当建造业、出口和投资纷纷萧条是，没有什么可以阻止衰退。

If the public sector spends less, will the private sector take up the slack?

如果公共部门降低开支的话，那么那些私营部门是否也会勒紧裤腰带呢？

That gap will eventually close, but until it does, government spending must take up the slack.

这种差距最终将会消失直到政府的开支趋于平缓。

Could domesticated bees take up the slack?

那依靠家养蜜蜂能补足这一缺口吗？

Will domestic growth take up the slack?

国内增长是否将弥补需求缺口？

That is true even in Germany, as its export markets falter and domestic demand fails to take up the slack.

这是正确的，即使在德国，由于其出口市场步履艰难，国内需求无法收拾残局。

To take up the slack of; tighten.

拉紧绳子；加紧

Or can exports take up the slack?

或者出口能带动疲软的经济么？