take up/pick up the slack

今天想要和大家分享兩個我覺得很重要的片語。
過去一年，我真的遇到太多次了。

A-ROD可能暫時不能上場打球了。
I think the team will try and pick up the slack until he's ready," Ransom said. "Hopefully it's not too long. You can't really replace what he does."

另一篇cbc報導全球失業人數將會大增的新聞
有人說這是個沒有意義的新聞，下面這個回文是這個而回的。
I am not at all sure I understand the totally useless posts here about how this article is useless information from the CBC.

I for one dont find the article useless, and appreciate that the CBC is providing us this information. It is factual in formation in an era when
unfortunately unemployment and increases in same is a fact.
Nothing to do with fearmongering. Heads-in-the-sands is not a substitute for insight.

必備片語

take up/pick up the slack--- to do something that needs to be done because someone else is no longer doing it

I, for one, ...
used to emphasize that you believe something, will do something etc and hope others will do the same

bury your head in the sand
to ignore an unpleasant situation and hope it will stop if you do not think about it(鴕鳥心態)