There is also a longer version of this expression 'to walk a tightrope'.

这个表达还有一个更长的版本， “to walk a tightrope”。

And 'to walk a tightrope' is to deal with a very difficult situation.

“to walk a tightrope”是指处理非常困难的情况。

Walking a tightrope means to be in a difficult situation which requires careful consideration of what to do.

走钢丝是指处于一个困难的处境，需要仔细考虑该做什么。

If you have to walk a tightrope, you're in a difficult situation that requires careful behaviour.

如果你如履薄冰，意思是你处在一个需要小心行事的困境中。

Both sides are walking a tightrope here because Hamas wants to keep pressure on Israel but doesn't want to get hit hard.

可以说，现在双方都处于如履薄冰的状态，因为哈马斯希望继续向以色列施压，但是不想遭受重创。

It's like walking a tightrope. Which, by the way, I can do, because I went to trapeze school. Did Jay? I doubt it.

就像是在走钢丝。顺便提一下：我能走，因为我练过。杰呢？我深表怀疑。

Emily describes rapport building as like walking a tightrope, an idiom to describe being in a difficult situation which requires carefully considering what to do.

艾米丽把建立融洽关系形容为走钢丝，这是一个用来描述处于困难处境之下习的语，该处境需要人们仔细考虑该做什么。

Most of us are walking a tightrope when it comes to protecting ourselves from the hackers, living on the edge thinking oh I won't fall.

当涉及到保护自己免受黑客攻击时，我们大多数人都在走钢丝，生活在边缘，想着哦，我不会掉下去的。

And I would say most of the companies that we work with realize this is a problem, but are walking a tightrope between privacy and morality.

我想说的是，与我们合作的大多数公司都意识到这是一个问题，但却在隐私和道德之间走钢丝。

In trying to present both male and female sides of herself, Mrs Thatcher walked a tightrope – an idiom meaning to be in a difficult situation that requires carefully considered behaviour.

在努力同时展现自己男性和女性方面时，撒切尔夫人如履薄冰——这是一个成语，意思是处于需要谨慎考虑的困境中。