Sheila stares downward, as though battening her emotional hatches.

希拉低头盯着地面，似乎准备好要迎接一场绪风暴。

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的航程。

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板上，然后将它们安装到墙上的面板上。

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的旅程。

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.

大脑有着它自己的食物，它贪婪地吞噬着，而由恐惧扭曲的想象力则像被痛苦折磨的活物一样扭动变形，种肮脏的木偶站在支架上跳舞，并透过移动的面具露出笑容。

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， 作一个在船上生活了两年的人，我确实经历过几次被命令关闭舱门的。

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.

此时，白宫行政管理和预算局表示，正在应对长期停摆做好一切准备。

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， 固定新的，装上板条，给屋顶铺石板， 全部都是我亲手完成的， 沃姆是我的助手。

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， 他们现在唯一的选择就是收紧开支、削减成本，时寄望于未来几年需求能持续不减。

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

我被船上的金属板被撕扯下来的声音吵醒，那些金属板从货舱上被扯下，撞击到休息区。

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

了即将到来的风暴做好准备，水手们会用称板条的木条固定甲板上的舱口。

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

“当我想到我们一生都在打击你， 却没有给你任何回报时， 我的心就沉了下去。

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？

The elder Koshak, a gruff, warm-hearted expert machinist of 67, agreed. " We can batten down and ride it out, " he said. " If we see signs of danger, we can get out before dark."

今年已 67 岁的老科夏克是个脾气暴躁但心肠很好的熟练机械师。对儿子的看法他表示赞。“我们能够封住风口，战胜风暴”，他说道，“果有危险迹象，我们可以在天黑前撤离。”

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， 不信任任何人。

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

我们中的一些人对此很厌恶——认这种生活方式很不光彩。

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

你进去躲起来，直到风暴过去，然后再出来。

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.

我认在暴风雨来临之际，加固门窗以保护窗户是一种做法，这是一句老话。

Better batten down the hatches, B.

最好未雨绸缪吧 B。

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，事会很艰难，所以让我们做好准备。