slick up

He said we must slick up our swords and guns, and get ready.

他说我们得擦亮了刀枪，做好准备。

He said we must slick up our swords and guns , and get ready.

他说我们得擦亮了刀枪, 做好准备.

One hypothesis is that winds--which can howl at up to 90 mph--push the stones across the slick mud left as the lake bed dries up after a downpour.

有人认为是风的作用——这里的风速最高可以达到90英里每小时，干涸的湖床在一场大雨之后湖底因为积水而变的很滑，就有可能产生这种结果。

Experts are trying to devise ways to clean up the huge slick.

专家们正想方设法清除这片面积巨大的浮油。

A batfish as flat as a pancake was dredged up from the oil-slick waters in the Gulf of Mexico. A new species of antelope was found on sale at a West African bush meat market.

像煎饼一样扁平的蝙蝠鱼在墨西哥湾的浮油水域被发现；一种新的羚类在一个非洲西部丛林肉市场上被廉价出售。

Other countries with deepwater oil reserves, from Brazil to Libya and Ghana to Greenland, have been even less troubled by the threat of a huge slick washing up on their beaches, pressing ahead with moves to encourage foreign companies to look for oil in their waters.

其它拥有深水石油储备的国家，从巴西、利比亚、加纳到格陵兰，甚至更不担心大面积浮油冲刷本国海岸的威胁，它们继续鼓励外国企业在本国海域内寻找石油。

One hypothesis is that winds which can howl at up to 90 mph push the stones across the slick mud left as the lake bed dries up after a downpour.

有人认为是风的作用&这里的风速最高可以达到90英里每小时，干涸的湖床在一场大雨之后湖底因为积水而变的很滑，就有可能产生这种结果。

e.g. He said we must slick up our swords and guns, and get ready.

他说我们得擦亮了刀枪，做好准备。2.

and I can barely make out the slick tree limbs holding up the walls of the three-foot square hole dropping hundreds of feet into the earth.

我勉强摸到墙上光溜溜的树枝扶手，它们支撑着这个一米见方深上百米的井筒。