catch-22
常見例句
- Here’s the catch-22: the more stressed you get, the more you crave coffee and doughnuts, pizza and Coke.
追趕22:壓力越大,您越渴望食用咖啡和甜甜圈,比薩和可樂。 - Another possibility is that we are stuck in an evolutionary Catch-22 where, as the appendix shrinks, appendicitis becomes more likely, favouring its retention.
另一種可能是我們處于一種進化的第22條軍規(guī)困境,隨著盲腸的萎縮,闌尾炎的發(fā)病率會更高,所以盲腸就保留了下來。 - The countdown to flyingthe 30 missions that will complete his service to the crown recollects the samecountdown in Joseph Heller's “Catch-22”: a race between luck and doom.
再完成30次飛行任務,他就可以圓滿退役,這讓人想起約瑟夫·海勒的《第二十二條軍規(guī)》:一場好運和厄運的賽跑。 - His catch-22 is that flogging off prize assets could make it more difficult to raise capital.
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