pick up the slack

常见例句

Deron Williams has helped pick up the slack with Boozer and Kirilenko sidelined.
威廉姆斯在布泽尔和基里连科因伤缺阵期间一直努力串连着球队。
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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.
美国的决策者将不得不寄希望于其经济上的主要竞争对手之一能够介入，填补其退出造成的空缺。
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.
马特奥：所以，重要的是你有一个团队，而有人能够填补空缺，就是去做那些别人可能无法做好的事情。

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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