Part of the issue is that the government did not anticipate the steep increase in airline travel, so the TSA is now rushing to get new screeners on the line.

队伍过长部分原因应该是政府未能预见搭乘飞机出行旅客剧增，因此TSA现在正急着招聘新安检员。

The path led to a tiny village perched on the steep sides of a mountain.

顺着小路，我们来到一个座落在陡峭山坡上小村庄。

The train snailed up the steep grade.

火车蜗牛一般地慢慢爬上陡坡。

The sheer cliffs on three sides and the steep summit made the citadel virtually impregnable.

三面陡峭悬崖外加高耸山顶让这座堡垒坚不可摧。

Sometimes bees paid a steep price for this preference.

有时蜜蜂会为这种偏好付出高昂代价。

The room was steeped in silence for what must have been several minutes.

屋子里寂静了好几分钟。

In such a case, the company's response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning curve has been steep.

当这种事发生时候，如果企业回应不够快或不够好，那么就可能酿成悲剧。

Last month partial government shutdown couple with some steep government's spending cuts hurt a lot of people but one benefit appears to be a big drop in the federal deficit.

上个，部分政府关门再加上政府支出急剧缩减损害了大部分益，但是却也有受益者，这就是联邦赤字大幅减少。

I have to be really careful, for example, when I climbed the steep narrow stairs that lead to this lectern.

我必须非常小心，比如当我通过这个陡峭狭窄楼梯，爬上这个讲台时候。

Energy is particularly concentrated at the steep chemical gradients of hydrothermal vents.

能量特别集中在热液喷口陡峭化学梯度上。

It's often used with the adjective steep, a steep learning curve.

它经常与形容词“陡峭”一起使用，陡峭学习曲线。

We reached a rocky edge from which a steep side fell away.

我们到了一条岩脊边上，那儿有个很陡悬崖伸展下去。

Christina was surprised by how steep the hills are.

克莉丝汀对这些山陡峭程度感到惊讶。

Lola recently fell down a 60-foot ravine in California and because the terrain around her was so steep she couldn't be walked out.

Lola最近从加福尼亚一个60英尺高峡谷里掉了下去，因为她周围地形非常陡峭，所以她根本走不出去。

And considering that people don't see these products in shops, or advertised on TV or in the press, it has been a pretty steep rise.

考虑到们在商店、电视或报纸上看不到这些产品广告，这算是一个相当陡峭上升。

They want countries to commit to steep cuts in green house gas emissions over the next 15 years and binding targets for how much energy comes from renewable resources.

他们希望各国能大幅度削减未来15温室气体排放量，并对新能源在能源中占多大份额设置约束性目标。

But as the sun climbs higher, deep shadows s hield the landscape that remains dark and forbidding. It is among the nation's deepest, steepest and narrowest canyons.

但是，当太阳逐渐攀升，巨大阴影笼罩了原本就一片黑暗可怕风景。这是国家最深邃，最陡峭，最狭长山谷。

This afternoon we're sailing through the Lemaire channel which is known to be absolutely beautiful because it's a very narrow channel with steep snowy cliffs on either side.

今天下午，我们将驶过勒梅尔海峡，众所周知，这条航道非常美丽，非常狭窄，两边都是陡峭雪崖。

Well, I hate being controlled by others, and I don't want to start at the bottom of a steep corporate ladder.

我不愿意受制于，也不想从公司最底层开始往上爬。

Then there's freestyle ski jumps, which means it's a very, very steep and short ramp, and they jump, and they have to, like, upside down, summersaults, and twists, and all kinds of interesting things.

然后是自由式跳台滑雪，意味着这是一个非常非常陡峭短坡道，选手们跳起来，必须得上下颠倒，翻跟头，转动身体，做各种各样有趣事。