pick up the slack

常见例句

Deron Williams has helped pick up the slack with Boozer and Kirilenko sidelined.
威廉姆斯在佈澤爾和基裡連科因傷缺陣期間一直努力串連著球隊。
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U. S. policy makers will have to hope one of its chief economic rivals steps in to pick up the slack.
美國的決策者將不得不寄希望於其經濟上的主要競爭對手之一能夠介入，填補其退出造成的空缺。
AM: So it was important that you were together as a team and someone was able to pick up the slack, meaning to do perhaps what the other person doesn't do very well.
馬特奧：所以，重要的是你有一個團隊，而有人能夠填補空缺，就是去做那些別人可能無法做好的事情。

Symbian sales were declining fast and Windows Phone had yet to pick up the slack.
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Slashing spending and expecting privatization or competition to pick up the slack is not working.
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Yet private institutions like USC cannot simply pick up the slack left by the public ones.
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