Until recently, she was a safe pair of hands.

直到最近，梅还是个可靠的帮手，她还是个女性，而这两者都是大卫卡梅伦所缺少的。

She favours Clooney, in what would be his most challenging role to date, as a safe pair of hands.

她认同克鲁尼是扮演这个角色的可靠人选，即便对他来说，这是到目前为止最有挑战性的一个角色。

Mr Darling is too familiar a figure now to extract much benefit from this kind of event, but he showed once again that he is a safe pair of hands.

达林是个太为人熟知的大人物，往往无法从这类事件中获益，但是，他又一次证明他是一个让人放心的人。

If so, they might do worse than plump for Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts and a primary candidate last time: a known quantity with what looks like a safe pair of hands.

如果是这样，他们就应该[注2]支持米特·罗姆尼，他是马萨诸塞州的前州长，上一次大选也参加了共和党初选，是大家熟知的竞选人，而且看上去办事牢靠[注3]。