Many also credit Serena and Venus Williams for keeping the balls bouncing at these courts.

许多人还称赞威廉姆斯姐妹一直在这些球场上打球。

They just preferred it, he told her. It was easier to keep the ball under control.

他告诉公主，他们更喜欢光脚踢球，这样更容易把球控制住。

Walls along the sidelines keep the ball in play, while guides behind each goal direct the attack.

边线上的墙壁让球一直位于比赛场地之中，而每个球门后面的引导员则负责指挥进攻。

His main conclusion was that a team's chances of keeping the ball fell with each pass.

他的主要结论是球队控球的机会随着每次传球而下降。

Experienced players keep the ball low and get in an offensive position near the kitchen, giving your opponent less time to react.

经验丰富的球员保持球在低位，并在厨房附近占据进攻位置，从而减少对手的反应时间。

But far beyond Joe and his inner circle, rank-and-file Democrats across the country worked to keep the ball rolling.

但是，除了乔和他的核心圈子之外，全国各地的普通民主党人都在努力让事情继续下去。

That's a second most at the running back position, but he played against Atlanta who kept the ball away.

这是跑卫位置上第二多的数据，但他在对阵亚特兰大的比赛中却把球挡在了外面。

They don't kick the ball or throw the ball to anyone else. They hog the ball they keep the ball to themselves, and that's the idiom to hog the ball.

他们不踢球，也不把球扔给任何人。就是霸占着球，把球占在自己脚下，这就是那个习语，hog the ball。

We actually have a really good idiom for this in English. It comes from sports from football and if you imagine a game where someone gets the ball and they keep the ball.

实际上在英语中有一个非常好的习语，它来自足球运动，你想象一场比赛，有人拿到了球，他们把着球。

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it “got boring, ” the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

很多时候，读者因为一本书“太闷”而将它放到一边，这种“闷”的产生是因为作者为自己描述的力量着了迷，却看不到自己的第一要务，即推动故事发展。