monkey n. 1.猴子;猿〔cf. ape〕;長毛猴的毛皮。 2.頑童;淘氣精。 3.打樁錘;(制造玻璃等用的)小坩堝。 4.〔英俚〕五百英鎊;〔美俚〕五百美元。 have a monkey (with the long tail) on a house [up the chimney] 〔方言〕抵押房屋。 have a monkey on one's back 為麻煩的問題等而苦惱。 have [get] one's monkey up = get a monkey on one's back 〔英俚〕生氣,發(fā)脾氣。 monkey money 〔美俚〕公司的臨時股票;期票;外國貨幣。 vi. 惡戲,惡作劇,管閑事,干涉(with)。 vt. 學(xué)樣,嘲弄。 monkey (about) with 〔美俚〕用…逗…玩;嘲弄;瞎搞,插嘴;打攪。 monkey with a buzz saw 〔美俚〕孤注一擲,好歹干一下。 adj. -ish 猴子似的;頑皮的。
He'd send him to white front garage for a left-handed monkey wrench . 他會叫他到白門面汽車修理店去拿一左旋活動扳手。
Ustable spanner, monkey wrench 活扳子,活絡(luò)扳手
A federal judge threw a monkey wrench into the project to build a new oil refinery on the river 新聞報道說:“聯(lián)邦法官終止了在河上修建新的煉油廠的工程。
We were about to begin construction on the building but the contractor threw a monkey wrench into the project 這幢樓我們正要動工,承包商卻從中作梗,使工程沒法繼續(xù)。
The great monkey wrench in that theory was the common gray squirrel, which lives an amazing two decades, yet also expresses telomerase in great quantity 這一理論的主要依據(jù)在于普通的灰松鼠,它們可以驚人地存活二十年,并且還有大量的端粒酶表達(dá)。
On september 5th the bank of england got its monkey wrench out and tackled one issue, the half-percentage-point gap between overnight lending rates and its official benchmark 9月5日,英格蘭銀行拿出鉗子,疏通了一部分,即隔夜資金拆出利率和官方基準(zhǔn)利率的0.5利差。
On september 5th the bank of england got its monkey wrench out and tackled one issue, the half-percentage-point gap between overnight lending rates and its official benchmark 在9月5號,英國央行拿出其管鉗,修理一個部分,即那位于隔夜拆貸及其官方利率之間的0.5%利差。