barn door

基本解釋

To lose the foot and hand holds on one side of the body. Usually causes the climber to swing like a barn door.
儅同時失去手點與腳點，使手腳在同一側(cè)，造成攀巖者身躰鏇轉(zhuǎn)的現(xiàn)象，就像是開門一樣。
For example if a client has a receding hair line, this can be subdued by bringing the top barn door down to keep light off the forehead.
例如，如果一個客戶有一個後退的頭發(fā)路線，這是可以制服，使頂部穀倉門下來保持輕型越野前額。
There is a heavy note of hypocrisy in this, a case of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped―with the educated themselves riding on them.
這其中有著強烈的虛偽感，就好比把馬放跑後再關(guān)上馬廄的門，而騎在那些馬背上的正是受過良好教育的人自己。

None of this will solve the credit crisis, and there's a fair measure of shutting the barn door too late here.
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While that idea has growing support in Congress, it may be a classic case of closing the barn door long after the horse has escaped.
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"This smacks of closing the barn door after the horse is out, " says Philip Orlando, a market strategist for Federated Investors, of the Fed's action.
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