toe the line

To avoid huge fines, networks and stations won't just toe the line that the "Without a Trace" fine suggests; they may steer well clear of it.

为避免巨额的罚金，广播电视公司和广播电视台不会吸取《寻人密探组》一案的教训，反而会很好地打擦边球。

Parents and teachers are best for me to toe the line, it has to carefully.

家长和老师是为我好的,要听话, 也得认真.

He's one of the politicians that wouldn't toe the party line.

他是不肯服从政党路线的几个政客之一。

He thinks religion's main function is to persuade a community toe the line, so promoting cohesion.

他认为宗教的主要功能是说服群体服从命令, 所以它可以促进凝聚力.

The floodgate may be regarded as a series system with four main failures modes including slip along the foundation, compression failure of the floodgate toe in the downstream line, tension crack of the floodgate heel in the upper stream and non-uniform stress distributions.

软基上的水闸可看成由4种主要失效模式（沿闸基面的滑动、下游闸趾压坏、上游闸踵拉裂和上下游应力不均匀）所组成的串联体系。

Women are sick and tired of being told to toe the line.

女性已经厌倦了被告知要服从命令。

Labour's insistence that members toe the party line.

工党坚持党员要遵循党的路线。

The "sociology" of big banks'boards also had something to do with it, says Ingo Walter of New York's Stern School of Business: as the members bonded, dissidents felt pressure to toe the line.

大银行董事会的社会关系学与此也有些关联，纽约斯特恩商学院的Ingo Walter认为：因为利益联盟，持不同政见者在那些循规蹈矩者中总要承受更大的压力。

Film makers not prepared to toe the line end up on a blacklist and are denied military help.

而那些不听话的电影制片人则会被列入黑名单并无法得到军方帮助。

This month, thousands of runners will toe the line with mixed emotions.

这个月, 数以千计的跑步者将带着不同的心情站在起跑线上.

...attempts to persuade the rebel members to toe the line...

说服叛乱分子顺从政府的努力

He might not like the rules but he'll toe the line just to avoid trouble.

他不太支持这些规定，但为了避免惹是生非还是严格遵守。

In this company you must toe the line if you want to keep your job.

在这个公司里,你必须循规蹈矩才能保住饭碗.

What does a guy get who can't toe the line?

不听命令的家伙会怎么处理？

The blacklisting of these three passengers should serve for others to know they have to toe the line.

这三名列入黑名单的乘客应该能让其他人意识到，他们必须遵守规定。

to toe the party line

遵循党的路线

With pleas going unheard, the city government is now moving toward legislation to force manufacturers to toe the line on packaging.

随着要求被置若罔闻，市政府正试图通过立法来使制造商在包装上遵守规定。

The results show that the four failure modes were ranked from highest to lowest effect: slip along the foundation, non-uniform distributions of stress, tension crack of the floodgate heel in the upper stream and compression failure of the floodgate toe in the downstream line.

由计算结果看出，水闸闸室沿闸基面滑动为水闸的最主要失效模式，上下游应力不均匀、上游闸踵拉裂、下游闸趾压坏为次要失效模式。

I'm expecting a long list of rules for my granddaughter while she's here, but she shouldn't expect me to toe the line.

我预计到了当孙女在我这儿的时候女儿会有给我她列一长串的规定，但她不能要求我去遵照这些条款。

The first time the new teacher met his class, he told the pupils that he expected all of them to toe the line in his lessons.

这位新教师个他的班级第一次见面是便对他的学生说，在他上课的时候，他要求他们循规蹈矩。

Don't toe the line just as it is grotesque, left to the mercy of it.

不要因它怪诞就俯首听命，听任它的摆布。

No. Hollande has said that he would shake things up once he gets in power and would not toe the line with Germany or anyone else.

奥朗德曾经说过，一旦掌权，他将彻底改革，而且不会追随德国或者其他国家的脚步。

I am sure he would toe the line.

我相信他会守规矩的.

So I toe the line and put the clocks back only once a year, and-sigh-put them forward again in the spring.

因此，我听从命令，每年只把时钟回拨一次，然后唉再在春季往前拨。

The deal with a job is that you opt to do it and can resign whenever you like, but while you are doing it you must toe the line.

工作的定义是，你选择做这份工作，不想干了还可以随时辞职，但只要你在做这份工作，你就必须履行职责。

Business schools emphasise how to make you toe the line.

而商学院强调的则是循规蹈矩。

One or two of them refused to toe the line.

他们中有一两个人拒不服从组织。

Toe the line , as soon as possible after sleep!

听话, 以后早点睡觉!

You toe the line or you don't stay on the team!

你要么服从纪律,要么就别待在队里！

If he doesn't toe the line, fire him!

要是他不守规矩就辞了他!