Sheila stares downward, as though battening her emotional hatches.

希拉低头盯着地面，似乎准备好要迎接一场情绪风暴。

It's time to batten down the hatches and prepare for another very bumpy ride.

现在是候放下舱口，并准备另一个非常颠簸的航程。

So really battening down the hatches.

所以真的把舱口下来了。

Batten down the hatches, young 'un.

做好准备，年轻人。

Better batten down the hatches, B.

最好未雨绸缪吧 B。

Well, isn't battening down the hatches usually the best way?

按常理 此刻坚守不出难道不是上策吗？

OK, so message to listeners is very much: batten down the hatches.

好的，所以听众的信息非常多：做好准备。

'My heart sinks when I think how we've battened on you all our lives and have given you nothing in return.

“当我想到我们一生都在击你， 却没有你任何回报， 我的心就沉了下去。

As the shuttles dashed through the warp they lifted up the heavy battens, and when the shuttles stopped they let the battens fall and pressed the threads together.

每当梭子飞快地穿过经线的候，织工们便把沉重的箱座抬起，梭子一停下来又立即放下筘座，把线压在一起。

I pulled down the old rafters, fixed the new ones, put on the battens, slated the roof, all with my own hands, Worm being my assistant.

我拆下旧椽子， 固定新的，装上，屋顶铺石， 全部都是我亲手完成的， 沃姆是我的助手。

He excited his employees' passions, pitted one against the other, allowed the stronger to swallow up the weaker ones, and for his own part battened on this struggle of conflicting interests.

他激发了员工的热情，相互竞争，让强者吞噬弱者，而他自己则在这场利益冲突中挣扎。

The elder Koshak, a gruff, warm-hearted expert machinist of 67, agreed. " We can batten down and ride it out, " he said. " If we see signs of danger, we can get out before dark."

今年已 67 岁的老科夏克是个脾气暴躁但心肠很好的熟练机械师。对儿子的看法他表示赞同。“我们能够封住风口，战胜风暴”，他说道，“如果有危险迹象，我们可以在天黑前撤离。”

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.

大脑有它自己的食物，它赖以生存，而想象力，因恐惧而变得怪诞，因痛苦而像活物一样扭曲变形，像一个肮脏的木偶一样在台子上跳舞，并透过移动的面具咧嘴笑。