broken-backed

基本解釋

But the moment markets started to fret about Italy in July, the strategy looked broken-backed.
但7月，隨著意大利財(cái)政預(yù)算控制計(jì)劃貌似停滯，市場(chǎng)上開(kāi)始彌漫對(duì)意大利的憂慮情緒。
And someone had been apprehended cutting down trees, a row of elms broken-backed among the VWs and Valiants.
有人因砍樹(shù)被捕，一排被腰斬的榆樹(shù)倒在大眾和威廉中間。
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The primary remedy is the setting up of a true precious-metals-backed currency alternative to the dark cabal's broken monetary system.
主要的補(bǔ)救方法，是創(chuàng)造一個(gè)真正的貴金屬支持的貨幣體系來(lái)替代黑暗政府破碎不堪的貨幣體統(tǒng)。
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The party is broken-backed too, its surviving parliamentarians stale, and its activists old, divided and mostly expecting at least two terms in opposition.
ECONOMIST: Riding high
Bearing this in mind, it is hard to confront the film with a clear eye, but what one sees is vigorous, wordy, and broken-backed.
NEWYORKER: Savage Nights
As it happened, the smell vanished as soon as the place warmed up, and it was her husband who performed all the tasks: lighting the stubborn Rayburn stove and forcing open the kitchen window, activating the bathroom plumbing and disposing of the broken-backed mice in the traps.
NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder