Sheila stares downward, as though battening her emotional hatches.

希拉低头盯着地，似乎准备好要迎接一场情绪。

It's time to batten down the hatches and prepare for another very bumpy ride.

现在是时候放下舱口，并准备另一个非常颠簸航程。

First we fix battens to plywood, then mount them on a wall with panels.

首先我们将木条固定在胶合上，然后将它们安装墙上上。

Short-term, then batten down the hatches might be a rocky ride.

短期内，紧缩开支可能会带来一段颠簸旅程。

Well, isn't battening down the hatches usually the best way?

按常理 此刻坚守不出难道不是上策吗？

We battened down the hatches and trusted no one until this battle was over.

在这场战斗结束之前， 我们紧闭门户， 不任任何人。

We might say, okay, things are going to be rough, so let's batten down the hatches.

我们可能会说，好吧，事情会很艰难，所以让我们做好准备。

Then you might be warned to batten down the hatches to prepare yourself.

然后你可能会被警告要系好舱盖，做好准备。

Better batten down the hatches, B.

最好未雨绸缪吧 B。

You go inside and you batten up until the storm passes, then you come back outside.

你进去躲起来，直过去，然后再出来。

You're in the middle of a storm, and so you've got to batten up the hatches as a temporary measure.

你正处于中，所以你得暂时加固船舱。

To prepare for an incoming storm, sailors would secure the hatches on the deck with strips of wood known as battens.

为了为即将来做好准备，水手们会用称为条木条固定甲上舱口。

'My heart sinks when I think how we've battened on you all our lives and have given you nothing in return.

“当我想我们一生都在打击你， 却没有给你任何回报时， 我心就沉了下去。

In one way or another, its practitioners batten on the society which they scorn and in which they refuse to take any responsibility.

我们中一些人对此很厌恶——认为这种生活方式很不光彩。

I got woken up with the metal battens being ripped off the ship, being ripped off the hold, and crashing against the sleeping quarters.

我被船上金属被撕扯下来声音吵醒，那些金属从货舱上被扯下，撞击休息区。

Hence, their only option now is to batten down the hatches and to cut costs, while hoping that demand will persist in the coming years.

因此， 他们现在唯一选择就是收紧开支、削减成本，同时寄望于未来几年需求能持续不减。

I pulled down the old rafters, fixed the new ones, put on the battens, slated the roof, all with my own hands, Worm being my assistant.

我拆下旧椽子， 固定新，装上条，给屋顶铺石， 全部都是我亲手完成， 沃姆是我助手。

Now, as someone who lived on a ship for two years, I certainly experienced a couple of occasions where I was ordered to batten down the hatches.

现在， 作为一个在船上生活了两年人，我确实经历过几次被命令关闭舱门情况。

And meanwhile, the White House Office of Management and Budget says it is making every preparation to batten down the hatches to ride out a long shutdown.

与此同时，白宫行政管理和预算局表示，正在为应对长期停摆做好一切准备。

I think it's one thing to batten down the hatches, if you will, an old phrase, that when a storm is coming, let's kind of protect the windows.

我认为在雨来临之际，加固门窗以保护窗户是一种做法，这是一句老话。