wrench in the works

英汉例句

双语例句

• "This observation throws a wrench in the works, " said Dr. Siepel.
  “这一观测结果给我们的工作造成了很大的麻烦，”西佩尔说。
• The publish-and-subscribe framework in JMS defines some functionality that could throw a wrench into the works of our effort to remain vendor neutral.
  JMS 中的发布-然后-订阅框架定义的一些功能性可能会妨碍我们为保持供应商独立而做的努力。
• Proxy servers may allow this and handle it gracefully, but they can also throw a monkey wrench in the works.
  代理服务器也许可以支持这点并优雅地处理，但它们同时也可能带来破坏因素。

权威例句

• But uncertainty about the economy remains high, and gas prices could throw a wrench in the works come summer.
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• The proverbial wrench in the works is if the FOMC is making the wrong assumptions about the economy and the direction of interest rates.
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• But when something is wrong in the progression—a fly in the ointment, a monkey wrench in the works, a bug in the code—we get hung up along the way, and our logical system breaks down.
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