broken-backed

基本解釋

But the moment markets started to fret about Italy in July, the strategy looked broken-backed.
但7月，隨著意大利財政預算控制計劃貌似停滯，市場上開始彌漫對意大利的憂慮情緒。
And someone had been apprehended cutting down trees, a row of elms broken-backed among the VWs and Valiants.
有人因砍樹被捕，一排被腰斬的榆樹倒在大眾和威廉中間。
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The primary remedy is the setting up of a true precious-metals-backed currency alternative to the dark cabal's broken monetary system.
主要的補救方法，是創(chuàng)造一個真正的貴金屬支持的貨幣體系來替代黑暗政府破碎不堪的貨幣體統(tǒng)。
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The party is broken-backed too, its surviving parliamentarians stale, and its activists old, divided and mostly expecting at least two terms in opposition.
ECONOMIST: Riding high
Bearing this in mind, it is hard to confront the film with a clear eye, but what one sees is vigorous, wordy, and broken-backed.
NEWYORKER: Savage Nights
As it happened, the smell vanished as soon as the place warmed up, and it was her husband who performed all the tasks: lighting the stubborn Rayburn stove and forcing open the kitchen window, activating the bathroom plumbing and disposing of the broken-backed mice in the traps.
NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder