I opened the wicket and ran to the door, knocking vehemently for admittance. A woman whom I knew, and who formerly lived at Gimmerton, answered: she had been servant there since the death of Mr Earnshaw.

我跑到房子门前，拚命敲门要进去。我所认识的从前住在吉默吞的一个女人来开门了：自从恩萧死后她就是那儿的女仆。

A sticky wicket is still pretty common in American English.

" a sticky wicket" 仍然在美语里很常见。

Then she ran away so quick it caused an interrupted " wicket" .

然后它就跑掉了，打断了比赛。

He's not batting on a full wicket, that one.

他可不是傻子。

Australia has won the men's Cricket World Cup, defeating the hosts India by six wickets in the final at a massive stadium in Ahmedabad packed with a crowd of 130,000 cheering Indian supporters.

澳大利亚赢得了男子板球世界杯，在艾哈迈达巴德的一个大型举行的决赛中，澳大利亚以六个三柱门的优势击败了东道，里挤满了 13 万名欢呼的球迷。

Inside the kitchen he saw Al, his derby hat tipped back, sitting on a stool beside the wicket with the muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun resting on the ledge.

他在厨房里看到把常礼帽戴在后脑勺的艾尔坐在便门旁边一只凳子上，一支锯断了的散弹枪枪口搁在架子上。

If sexual violence always tends to spiral out of control, it is because the agent of that violence must know deep down he is on a losing wicket.

如果说性暴力总是趋于失控，那是因为暴力的执行者必须在内心深处知道自己正处于失败的边缘。

" I will now, " she said; and, acting on the impulse, went through the wicket to where Venn stood under the Maypole.

“我这就去，”她说；她有些冲动地出了栅栏门，来到五朔节花柱下维恩站的地方。

It seemed to us a piquant thing to chevy him about the playground, hit him over the shins with a wicket.

对于我们，刺激的是在操上追他，用（板球的）三柱门敲他的腿。

The answer here is cricket in which the only field are allowed to wear gloves is called the wicket keeper.

在板球运动中，守门员是唯一允许戴手套的人。

She skirted the bank and went round to the wicket before the house, where she stood motionless, looking at the scene.

她顺着土堤，绕到房子前面的小门，站在那儿一动不动，看眼前的景物。

The grass on the wicket is usually shorter than other grass or there might not be any grass at all.

柱子之间的草通常会比板球其他地方的草短些，或者就没有草。

That really is a sticky wicket. I would not want to be in your position.

那确实挺棘手的。我不想遇上你这样的情况。

When he was gone Eustacia, leaving her telescope and hourglass by the gate, brushed forward from the wicket towards the angle of the bank, under the fire.

他一走，游苔莎把望远镜和沙漏放在栅栏门旁，然后朝篝火下面土堤角处匆匆走去。

A sticky wicket is a difficult or sensitive situation. This term comes from the sport of cricket.

" a sticky wicket" 是指困境或者敏感局面。这个短语出自板球运动（the sport of cricket）。

If the wicket is too wet or too dry, the ball can move in an unpredictable way.

如果三柱门柱子之间的区域太潮湿或者太干，球可能会以不可预测的方式运动。

These days, cricket teams may use a cover for the wicket, but that hasn't affected the use of this expression.

现如今，板球会用东西盖住柱子之间的区域，但这并不妨碍人们使用这个表达。

Now the other sticky wicket of fission reactions is the stuff that's left behind.

现在裂变反应的另一个粘性检票口是留下的东西。

So, at the end of the pitch in both places you have the wicket.

所以，在两个地方的球尽头， 你都有检票口。

For Disney, the loss looks like a sticky wicket avoided.

对迪士尼而言，这似乎是避免了棘手局面，避免了损失。