| 词汇 | on-the-blink |
| 释义 | on the blinkidiom informal When a machine is on the blink, it is not working correctly.（机器）失灵，出毛病 broken brokenThe microwave's broken. deadThe phone's dead; there must be a problem with the line. defunctThe TV's defunct! bustUKYou won't be able to watch the game, the TV's bust. bustedUSOh no, my laptop's busted. out of orderThe coffee machine was out of order. Machines - not functioning act up balky blooey break down broken brokenness brownout defunct downtime fail flat outage power (something) down seize seize up short circuit shot shudder shut whack He—his control's on the blink! The whole observatory went on the blink. Well, I don't know what you call it, but there's a machine here that showed some pictures until it went on the blink. on the blink | American Dictionaryon the blinkidiom not working correctly: The DVD player is on the blink again. Examples of on the blinkon the blink It came down to the difference between a prison cell and a good life in which one occasionally gets angry about the refrigerator that keeps going ontheblink. Every day somewhere on the underground system the signalling goes ontheblink and millions of gallons of water seep into the tunnels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What if someone is not identified with the card that he presents, or the computer goes ontheblink? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Transportation and roads are important, and we need a power supply which does not fluctuate, causing computers to go ontheblink once or twice a day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Alarms are sounded, police are called and suddenly the electrics go ontheblink. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Among these are technological failures, such as a television that's ontheblink, a clothes dryer that doesn't work and a video machine that breaks down. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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