to be leery of a proposal

不随便附和提案

Plumbers were afraid to install Flushometers because they knew nothing about them. architects would not specify them for the same reason. Owners did not want to be the guinea pigs. Lenders were leery of unproven products.

管道工由于对冲水阀知之甚少而不敢安装冲水阀,建筑师也由于同样的原因不敢采用冲水阀,而房屋业主也不想自己作为别人的试验品,出租人不想采用未经证实的产品。

a leery old bird

老滑头.

He is leery of our proposal.

他不随便附和我们的提案[对我们的提案存有戒心]

I tend to be a bit leery of cut-price `bargains'

我对减价商品有点戒心

I'm as leery of certain polls as anyone

我和任何人一样对某些民意测验持怀疑态度。

I`m very leery of him.

我特别留神他.

was leery of aggressive salespeople.

小心警惕地对待那些殷勤的推销员

||1:It has yet to realise the money-spinning potential of WhatsApp, its messaging service.||2:Analysts expect Facebook’s second-quarter results, due out on July 24th, to show revenues up by 25% from last year, to $16.3bn.||3:Unlike profits at some other technology firms, its net income is expected to rise, by 6% to $5.4bn—more than enough to cover the fine.||4:Facebook is not out of the woods.||5:Other regulators and politicians are lining up to take a swipe at Big Tech, and not just in America.||6:Financial authorities are leery of Libra, worrying that it could become a vehicle for fraud and money laundering, as happened with some other cryptocurrencies.||7:Central bankers fear that if adopted widely enough it could threaten financial stability.||8:On July 16th Ursula von der Leyen, president-elect of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said she wants the tech giants to pay more taxes.||9:The next day the bloc’s competition chief, Margrethe Vestager, announced a probe into Amazon’s use of merchant data.||10:In some countries data-protection regulators want to order non-compliant companies to stop processing data altogether.||11:That would hurt considerably more than a fine.

||1:该公司尚未意识到其即时通讯服务WhatsApp的赚钱潜力。||2:分析人士预计，Facebook将于7月24日公布的第二季度业绩将显示，其营收同比增长25%，达到163亿美元。||3:与其他一些科技公司的利润不同，它的净收入预计将增长6%，达到54亿美元，足以支付罚款。||4:Facebook并没有走出困境。||5:其他的监管机构和政客们正排着队准备抨击大型科技公司，而且不仅仅是在美国。||6:金融当局对天秤座持怀疑态度，担心它可能成为欺诈和洗钱的工具，就像其他一些加密货币一样。||7:央行官员担心，如果广泛采用，可能会威胁到金融稳定。||8:7月16日，欧盟执行机构欧盟委员会候任主席乌苏拉?冯?德莱恩表示，希望科技巨头缴纳更多的税款。||9:欧盟竞争事务负责人玛格丽特·维斯塔格宣布对亚马逊使用商户数据的行为展开调查。||10:在一些国家，数据保护监管机构希望命令不合规的公司完全停止处理数据。||11:这比罚款要严重得多。

Despite the power of placebos, many conventional doctors are leery of prescribing them.

尽管安慰疗法有着强大的力量，但是很多常规医生仍怀有猜疑。

And buyers are likely to be leery of income-contingent loans because of the difficulty in assessing their value and because they are an unfamiliar form of debt, says Mr Barr.

另外，巴尔表示，买家可能对按收入比例回报的贷款心存疑虑，因为很难去评估其中的价值以及这些是不常见的贷款。

But despite its private enthusiasm for irradiation, the food industry is leery of embracing the technology in public.

不过，尽管食品行业对于辐射有着暗中的激情，但该行业对此公开的技术却持怀疑态度。

A number of researchers, as well as parents of autistic people, are leery of too much emphasis on autistic strengths.

不仅自闭症患者的父母，还有许多研究人员对过多强调自闭症的强项持有怀疑态度。

Traditionally, many economists have been leery of prolonged unemployment benefits because they can reduce the incentive to seek work.

传统上，许多经济学家一直对长期失业救济金持怀疑态度，因为它会使人们减少寻找工作的积极性。

Be very leery of the results of any performance measurement that does not involve a realistic program load over a long period of time.

对于那些没有包含什么实际的程序负荷，测试时间不够长的性能测试的结果，一定要非常当心。

Most IT departments are leery of allowing associates free reign to download software to their computers.

很多IT部门都不愿意公司其他部门同事随心所欲的在自己电脑上下载软件。

Their mistake: They assume hot investments and hot funds will stay hot. But, in fact, such dazzling gains ought to make them leery .

他们的错误在于：他们以为热门的投资和热门的基金会一直热下去。但实际上，如此

I would be very leery of any companies that are exporting raw materials into China to build up this real estate bubble.

我对任何公司出口原材料到中国进而加剧房地产泡沫的行为持保留态度。

Student leaders are leery , citing what they consider to be a history of betrayals of reform by Chile's political establishment.

学生代表们比较警觉，声称他们所期盼的是一次智利政府对教育的全面改革。

Marketers tend to overdo things, which makes people sick of them, leery of their methods and message.

营销人员总想把事情做得很夸张，这常常会让人们产生反感情绪并对他们的技巧和信息产生怀疑。

With nerves still jangling in Europe, the region's central bankers are leery of appearing to be forced sellers.

由于神经依然紧张，欧洲各国央行官员不愿摆出一幅被迫抛售黄金的模样。

Some battery manufacturers may even be leery about buying recycled lithium compounds from recyclers for fear of contamination, Gaines said.

有些电池制造商，甚至担心污染，对回收商，暗送秋波，希望从他们那里回购锂及其化合物。

Nixon has instituted many reforms over the last three years, and he's leery of focusing too much on paddling as a "fix-all. "

在过去三年中，尼克松已经实行了很多改革，但他对于将注意力过分集中于打学生作为“纠正一切”的措施也表示疑惑。

Obama was leery of appearing to shoulder responsibility for problems before he had any real authority to fix them.

在没有处理问题的实权之前担起责任，关于这一点，奥巴马有点迟疑。

Lenders will be leery of high risk investments for the next couple of years.

在未来几年借贷方将会对高风险的投资更加机敏。

Musicians and labels once leery of making songs available digitally for games are now embracing the opportunity.

曾经对于把歌曲用于游戏很敏感的音乐家和厂牌们现在都积极配合。

That helps keep them hidden from the public eye by companies leery of publicizing breaches in corporate security.

这有助于它们在企业安全中通过狡猾的宣传漏洞逃出公司公众眼底。

Such systems have been around since the late 1990s but many motorists remain leery of relinquishing control to a computer.

这种系统大概是在20世纪90年代后期起就有了，但是许多司机一直对把控制让位给计算机持怀疑态度。

It's that knowledge of the long-term fundamentals that make so many of us so leery of the current cyclical bull market.

正是那对长远基本面的了解，才使我们中间许多人在目前的周期性牛市如此机敏。

The changes are a significant move for a bureaucracy that is leery of outside cultural influences and competition from foreign films.

政府做出的这些重大转变意在警惕外来文化的影响以及国外制片公司的竞争。

(of)a leery old bird

老滑头

leery;as sharp as a razor

机警的

old fox;sophisticated guy;leery old bird

老油条