| 词汇 | haywire |
| 释义 | haywire adjective informaluk /ˈheɪ.waɪər/ us /ˈheɪ.waɪr/ go haywire to stop working, often in a way that is very sudden and noticeable: 出故障，出毛病 The television's gone haywire.电视机出毛病了。 Machines - not functioning act up balky blooey break down broken brokenness brownout downtime fail flat malfunction outage power (something) down seize seize up short circuit shot shudder shut whack Examples of haywirehaywire The project makes the case for sophisticated planning in place of 'an opaque system of decentralisation that looks more like cell division gone haywire'. Leslie responds that experiences in lawless, haywire worlds are among the many experiences not worth having. If there are infinitely many divine minds, there will be many divine minds thinking of worlds that are just like ours up till now, but which then subsequently go haywire. If we based our system of public finance on this kind of principle, the thing would go haywire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the years immediately after the war it did fairly well, until the planners went haywire in 1947. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The timetable has gone completely haywire and very little is happening as a consequence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have nationalised industries, in which commercial economics seem to have gone haywire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The market economy goes haywire and shows up the false situation which exists when there is a monopoly and any price can be demanded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a large number have mislaid them, the theoretical view of the probable time the operation will take will go completely haywire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that the figures have gone completely haywire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Frequent use will disrupt the normal pattern of periods and there is nothing women hate more than periods that have gone haywire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet we all know that the present system of local government finance was and is haywire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are pretty haywire and could be amalgamated much more satisfactorily. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But by the time we got to the 1970s everything seemed to go haywire, with a political agenda and some very different recruits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is having to change his policies because our trade has gone haywire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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