haywire

英 [ˈheɪwaɪə(r)]

美 [ˈheɪwaɪər]

adj.  失控的; 乱套的

TEM8计算机

BNC.36642 / COCA.22464

习惯用语

adj.

go haywire
• 出故障；紊乱；失去控制
  to stop working correctly or become out of control
• After that, things started to go haywire.
  此后事情开始失去控制。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 失控的;乱套的
  If something goeshaywire, it goes out of control or starts doing the wrong thing.
  1. Many Americans think their legal system has gone haywire.
     很多美国人认为他们的司法体系已经乱套了。

英英释义

noun

• wire for tying up bales of hay

adj

• not functioning properly
  1. something is amiss
  2. has gone completely haywire
  3. something is wrong with the engine
  Synonym:amiss(p)awry(p)wrong(p)
• informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  1. it used to drive my husband balmy
  Synonym:balmybarmybatsbattybonkersbuggycrackedcrackersdaftdottyfruitykookykookielocoloonyloopynutsnuttyround the bendaround the bendwackywhacky

双语例句

• In my first company, things were going haywire in the project.
  在我的第一家公司，事情会在项目失控。
• Things just very rarely go haywire now.
  现在已经很难天下大乱了。
• Everytime that old Indian drinks alcohol, he completely goes haywire and wants to scalp everyone he sees.
  那个老印第安人每次一喝酒就完全失去控制，想剥每个他看到的人的头皮。
• A twist on a familiar quote "If at first you don't succeed, give up" or a play on words or on a situation. The picture is going haywire.
  它可以是一句常言的歪曲如你要是一开始不成功，就放弃，或者是玩弄语言和情景。
• It was not the public but the private sector that went haywire in Ireland and in Spain.
  在爱尔兰和西班牙，出问题的不是公共部门，而是私人部门。
• In autoimmune disorders, the system goes haywire, mistaking the body's own tissues for foreign invaders and destroying them.
  自身免疫性疾病中，免疫系统功能紊乱，把自身组织误认为是外来的侵袭物并且破坏它们。
• But the issue worrying some investment firms is what might be called the "summer curse"; precisely because trading volumes tend to be so thin in the summer months, and senior hands are away, markets can go completely haywire if something does go wrong.
  但让某些投资机构感到不安的，是所谓的“夏季诅咒”；正是因为在夏季这几个月交易往往极为清淡，加上高管们外出度假，如果出现问题，市场可能会完全失控。
• The picture is going haywire.
  这图象歪歪扭扭的。
• Prices went haywire; banks and asset managers discovered that all their trading and hedging models had broken down.
  价格陷入疯狂；银行和资产管理公司发现，它们的交易和对冲模型全部失灵。
• Our washing machine has gone haywire.
  我们的洗衣机坏得一场胡涂。