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John Aldridge is backing Liverpool to avoid this afternoon's potential FA Cup banana skin at Luton and keep their Wembley dreams on track.
约翰·奥尔德里奇支持红军在今天下午对卢顿的比赛中避免阴沟翻船，保留他们的温布利之梦。
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Being drunk, sliding on a banana skin or whispering his own failures to nobody, he made us feel more content with our life without any verbal explanation.
喝醉酒啦，踩到香蕉皮滑倒啦，或者自言自语（低语）自己的糗事啦，他无需任何语言解释的表演总是使我们对自己的生活感到更加满意。
The man who earned the sobriquet “No Drama Obama” for running such a disciplined campaign has, since coming to office, slipped on one banana skin after another.
这个有着“绝非儿戏奥巴马”绰号，运行了如此记录严明的竞选的人，在来到办公室之后却接二连三的踩到香蕉皮上面。

Works veer from the jokily banal—a fibreglass banana skin, a framed set of receding cigarette ends—to deliberately disorientating pieces.
ECONOMIST: Art in London restaurants
Many a banana skin will be strewn in the prime minister's path: barring a vote to change the timetable, a new parliament will be elected in March or April 2002, a new president in May.
ECONOMIST: Lionel Jospin, France’s would-be president
He picked up a rotting banana skin and hung it on the leaves of a neem tree that grew near the gate of the house, so that it would startle the owners when they came out.
NEWYORKER: The Elephant

a sudden unexpected situation that makes a person appear silly or causes them difficulty