down the drain

down the drain什么意思,down the drain翻译

基本解释

un.: 〔电子〕漏板；〔医〕引流管；〔技〕放水口。；白扔掉

英汉解释

• 白扔掉

• 〔电子〕漏板;〔医〕引流管;〔技〕放水口。

例句

• The trouble with trying to maintain an old car is that you"re always pouring money down the drain to keep it roadworthy.

  试图维修这辆旧车的困难在于，总要花大本钱才能使它开得动。

• After such a painful adjustment before deciding the direction of development, strategic blunders made profitable gas% down the drain.

  经过这样痛苦的调整才确定了发展方向，战略的失误使得赢利的60%化为乌有。

• We have said it would all be sudden as the dark whirlwind goes down the drain, just as you see water swirl down a drain.

  我们曾说过一旦黑暗势力白白浪费良机，这就会很突然的发生，就像水被漩涡吸走那样迅猛。

• Hackett was prepared to pour the batch down the drain if it tasted awful.

  如果味道糟糕的话，哈科特准备倒掉这批酒。

• He said "our banking system is going to lose hundreds of billions of dollars" and taxpayer money was "going down the drain" .

  他说：不仅“我们的银行体系将要损失数以千亿的美元”，而且纳税人的钱也会付诸东流。

• "My esteem for the Japanese government has completely gone down the drain, " she said.

  “我彻底失去了对日本政府的尊敬。”她说。

• His fortune went down the drain when he began drinking heavily and gambling in casinos .

  自从他开始酗酒又在赌场赌博，他的财产渐渐挥霍殆尽。

• Right. -You know, when they go down the drain, when you don"t use all of the container, what do you end up doing with it?

  对。-你知道，在进入下水道后，在你没用完容器内的所有清洁剂时，你最后会拿它怎么办？

• Daisy was in the bathroom. She was brushing her teeth and the tap was on. Water was pouring into the washbasin and vanishing down the drain.

  黛西在浴室里。那时她正在刷牙，但是水龙头开着。水流入水槽，消失在下水道中。

• All of his hopes and dreams of one day becoming the company"s CEO went down the drain when the company went bankrupt.

  随着公司的破产，他所有的希望以及有朝一日成为公司总裁的梦想都破碎了。