slick up

He said we must slick up our swords and guns , and get ready .

他说我们得擦亮了刀枪，做好准备。

e.g. He said we must slick up our swords and guns , and get ready .

他说我们得擦亮了刀枪，做好准备。2.

Other countries with deepwater oil reserves , from Brazil to Libya and Ghana to Greenland , have been even less troubled by the threat of a huge slick washing up on their beaches , pressing ahead with moves to encourage foreign companies to look for oil in their waters .

其它拥有深水石油储备的国家，从巴西、利比亚、加纳到格陵兰，甚至更不担心大面积浮油冲刷本国海岸的威胁，它们继续鼓励外国企业在本国海域内寻找石油。

and I can barely make out the slick tree limbs holding up the walls of the three-foot square hole dropping hundreds of feet into the earth .

我勉强摸到墙上光溜溜的树枝扶手，它们支撑着这个一米见方深上百米的井筒。