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英式音标:[daun ðə drein]英式读音
美式音标:[daʊn ði dren]美式读音
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词义:

释义

挥霍掉,浪费掉;

英英释义

Down the Drain

Down the Drain is a 1990 American comedy film. It was directed by Robert C.

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双语例句

Gallons of the stuff are going to waste.
大量的这种东西将被浪费掉。

The disastrous fire undid months of hard work.
灾难性的火灾使数月的辛苦工作化为乌有。

Support for the party has dwindled away to nothing.
支持这个党派的人渐渐化为乌有。

All our hopes were dashed by the announcement.
这事宣布後,我们的一切希望都落空了。

His dream has once again fallen short of the mark.
他的梦想又一次落空。

权威例句

Down The Drain

Down the drain?

Down the drain

Introduction: Cash Transfers: Panacea for Poverty Reduction or Money Down the Drain?

Energy down the drain: The Hidden Costs of California's Water Supply

ENERGY DOWN THE DRAIN

Risk assessment of "down-the-drain"chemicals: search for a suitable model

"Down the drain": carbapenem-resistant bacteria in intensive care unit patients and handwashing sinks

Drugs down the drain.

Modeling the fate of down-the-drain chemicals in rivers: An improved software for GREAT-ER

Replacing Sources with Sinks: When Do Populations Go Down the Drain?

A geo-referenced aquatic exposure prediction methodology for ‘down-thedrain’ chemicals

BOTTLED WATER: Pouring Resources Down the Drain
同义词:squander away
造句:

1. She tipped the dirty water down the drain.

她把脏水倒入了下水道。

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2. Safety standards have gone down the drain.

安全标准根本不管用了。

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3. It's just money down the drain, you know.

你要知道,这是白白丢钱。

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4. They were aware that their public image was rapidly going down the drain.

他们意识到自己的公众形象正被迅速地破坏掉。

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5. The water swirled down the drain.

水打着旋流进了下水道。

《牛津词典》

6. I know, but I didn't want to risk the project going down the drain.

我知道,但我不想冒让这个项目泡汤的风险。

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7. When people wash these clothes, microfibers go down the drain with the wash water.

当人们洗这些衣服时,超细纤维会随着洗涤水一起流到下水道里。

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8. I pumped six ounces, and then had to pour it down the drain.

我吸出来了足有六盎司,然后不得不把它们倒进了下水道。

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9. One season of apples down the drain.

一季的苹果就这样付诸东流。

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10. I pumped six ounces and then had to pour it down the drain.

我吸出来了足有六盎司,然后不得不把它们倒进了下水道。

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11. Silence was filled only by the inaudible swoosh of my career going down the drain, but I was on a roll.

一片寂静,只有我的职业生涯无声无息的被旋转着冲入了下水道,但我也挺不住了。

youdao

12. Well, they go down the drain if you don't have disability insurance.

那么,如果你没有伤残保险,他们付诸东流。

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13. We had to scrap everything and start again - six months 'work down the drain!

我们得扔掉每件东西重新开始——六个月的工作都白费了!

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14. In 2003, Dutch agriculturalist Marc DE Ruiter saw dairy farmers in windswept Shanxi province literally pouring their milk down the drain because there was not enough demand.

2003年,荷兰农学家雷一鸣看到,风中山西省奶农,在把实实在在的牛奶倒进了水沟里,因为那里没有足够的需求。

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15. Perhaps you simply have to work harder if you sell a product that literally gets washed down the drain.

如果你真的要卖这种真正意义上“被冲下排水沟”的产品的话,也许银行业者们真该加把劲了。

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16. That meant the baristas were pouring millions of dollars of leftover milk down the drain.

这意味着咖啡师们会不断的将数百万美元的残存牛奶导入下水道中。

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17. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.

现在有一种新的选择方式产生----用碱液溶解尸体并且把褐色浆糊状的污秽物倒入排水沟中。

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18. The organisms that stay in the tube of toothpaste are the fittest. The others get flushed down the drain.

最终,管子是会破的,停留在牙膏管里的是适者,其他的就付之东流了。

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19. One company selling hydrochloric acid for etching cement floors reckoned that, because it was in gel form and could legally be washed down the drain, the product was environmentally friendly.

一家销售蚀刻水泥地盐酸的公司以为盐酸为胶液产品,可以被合法地冲进下水道,因此是环保产品。

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20. And I look at the energy situation, and it's going down the drain at pretty high speed.

我关注能源形势,能源正在以极快的速度被白白浪费掉。

youdao

21. 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。

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22. Tests showed that heating this mixture with microwaves was about 90 percent efficient at creating precursors to fuel-which beats tossing the oil down the drain.

测试表明加热这个含有微波辐射的混合物可以有效地将90%的废旧机油变成燃料。

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23. Should a recruit not re-enlist, not only is that money down the drain but it will cost another $100, 000 to train a replacement.

如果要重新征兵,那么不仅投进去的钱没了,还要另花100,000美元训练新兵。

youdao

24. Do they go straight down the drain on a bunch of stuff you don't need?

会不会浪费在一些你产不需要的东西上?

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25. Let it sit for an hour or so, then run hot water down the drain to clear out the salt.

静静等上一个小时,然后倒些热水清理掉盐。

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26. Watch what you wash down the drain.

注意你冲洗进下水道的东西。

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27. A: I'm afraid that you will let the money go down the drain again. We can't afford to throw away the money.

恐怕你又让那些钱白白浪费掉,我们承受不起。

youdao

28. To really disinfect the sink and drain, clean them twice a week with a solution of one tablespoon of bleach and one quart of water: scrub the basin, then pour the solution down the drain.

若想要真正为洗涤槽和排水管消毒,每周用一汤匙漂白剂和一夸脱 (约946毫升)水的混合溶液清洗两次:先擦洗洗涤槽,然后将混合溶液倒入排水管。

youdao

29. To really disinfect the sink and drain, clean them twice a week with a solution of one tablespoon of bleach and one quart of water: scrub the basin, then pour the solution down the drain.

若想要真正为洗涤槽和排水管消毒,每周用一汤匙漂白剂和一夸脱 (约946毫升)水的混合溶液清洗两次:先擦洗洗涤槽,然后将混合溶液倒入排水管。

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