n.连载惊险小说;惊险紧张的比赛;吊人胃口的场景
网络 连续冒险片; 高潮迭起; 惊险的事件
The election is likely to be a cliff-hanger.
这次选举可能会很吊人的胃口。
Would a human translator care to translate a "cliff-hanger" or "containerization" into Chinese?
一个搞翻译的人是否乐意将“一种惊险连续剧”或“集装箱运输”译成汉语?
Last night he told the children a cliff-hanger story and both of them were scared out of sleep.
昨天晚上他给孩子们讲惊险故事,把他们俩吓得睡不着觉。
Peter was nearly involved in a car accident. He called it a narrow escape. But it was really a cliff-hanger.
彼得差点儿出了车祸。他称之为侥幸逃脱,但那的确让他胆战心惊。
Another is that the performance of Greece under the EU-IMF programme has been so poor that every quarterly assessment to approve the next tranche of loans becomes a cliff-hanger.
另一个原因是希腊如此糟糕的表现,它已经接受欧盟-国际货币基金组织的援助方案,然而每季度的评估结果都表明下一笔援助款项将成为它的最后一根救命稻草。