cockeyed

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The whole universe was crazy and cockeyed and extremely strange.
整個宇宙瘋狂而荒唐，極其怪異。
In “Ponzi’s Scheme” (2005), Mitchell Zuckoff, a journalism professor at Boston University, regards his subject as a chronic dreamer with a cockeyed scheme that went awry.
波士頓大學(xué)新聞學(xué)教授米切爾·扎可奧夫在2005年出版了一本名為“龐氏騙局”的書。書中，他認(rèn)為龐茨是一個積習(xí)難改的空想家，揣著一個荒唐并最終化為泡影的投資計(jì)劃。
In August 2009, not even the most cockeyed optimists could have projected that within four months, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo would return $100 billion in borrowed funds to the taxpayers.
2009年8月，即使是最荒唐的樂觀主義者也難以預(yù)計(jì)，美國銀行、花旗集團(tuán)、富國銀行（Wells Fargo）能在4個月時間里，將1000億美元借貸資金返還給納稅人。

The whole universe was crazy and cockeyed and extremely strange.
整個宇宙瘋狂而荒唐，極其怪異。
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Specifically, the cockeyed policy that has, since late 2007, tilted the investing playing field toward short selling.
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That's so cockeyed because Vegas is the very vaccination against sports fixing.
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Not Here Next time the WTO comes to Seattle, I hope theres a loud demonstration by free-traders denouncing our cockeyed system of apparel quotas.
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(SLOPING) not straight, but sloping to one side
(STUPID) used to describe a plan or idea that is stupid, not suitable, or not likely to be successful
(DRUNK) having drunk too much alcohol

If you say that an idea or scheme is cockeyed, you mean that you think it is very unlikely to succeed.
If something is cockeyed, it looks wrong because it is not in a level or straight position.