train wreck

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At the hearing, Senator John McCain described it as “a train wreck” and accused Lockheed Martin of doing “an abysmal job”.
在聽證會上，參議員約翰·麥凱恩將其描述為“列車殘骸”，并指責(zé)洛·馬在做“一件糟糕的工作”。
She was no train wreck—nothing of the sort—but she stood still, and oddly so, occasionally sipping water and swaying little.
她不是失事火車殘骸，遠(yuǎn)不是這類人，但她仍然保持這樣，很奇怪，有時抿幾口水，噴出來一點。
A lot of us saw this train wreck coming.
我們很多人都看到了這火車即將來臨的失事。

They accidentally record a train wreck and, in the process, uncover a top-secret military project.
a financial train wreck between the deficit social security and medical care.
就是社保和醫(yī)保赤字的爛攤子。
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because we're prolonging basically a train wreck,
因為我們把爛攤子拉長了，
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In other words, what appeared to be a train wreck was truly a train wreck.
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