Every time they lowered a lifeline and flotation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers.

每当他俩降下救生索和救生圈给他，他都要让给另外个乘客。

They're on the hook, they're waiting with baited breath to see if they'll get a lifeline or if they'll be up the creek.

它们落网，他们在诱饵上等待着呼吸着，看看他们是否会得到救生索，或者他们是否会爬上小溪。

And it's quite notable that the government's intervention is a huge lifeline for the tech industry - right? - an industry that historically has been pretty hostile to government regulation and oversight.

值得注意是，政干预是科技行业条巨大救生索，对吧? ——这个行业过去直对政监管、监督持敌对态度。

For at some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and ring to others.

在水中刻，他肯定想到了如果他继续把救生索和救生圈让给别人话，自己就无法生还。

Fathers that have been absent, regardless of their past mistakes, deserve a lifeline.

缺席父亲，无论他们过去犯过什么错误，都应该得到救生索。

And I could see them looking at the hoist.

我能看到他们盯着救生索。

Tonight on Capitol Hill, there is word of a potential parachute, a bipartisan bill that would require Congress to approve new tariffs forbidding the president from acting alone.

今晚在国会山传出消息， 可能会有个“救生索”，即项两党共同提出法案， 该法案要求国会批准新关税政策， 禁止总统单独行动。

He's like healing himself and he's kind of offering up like a little lifeline to everyone else who's in this mire right now.

他就像在自我治愈，并且在向所有目前陷入泥潭人提供条小小救生索。

Then I met, or rather got to know, the lady who threw me first lifeline.

这时我遇到或者说认识了抛给我第根救生索那位夫人。

Seriously, max.This new cupcake business is our lifeline.

说正经 Max 纸杯蛋糕生意 就是我们救生索。