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

• The computer opposes me. Everything goes haywire when I use it.
  计算机与我作对。我每次我一用它，它就乱了套。
• WASHINGTON-Overeating makes the brain go haywire, prompting a cascade of damage that may cause diabetes, heart disease and other ills, US researchers reported on Thursday.
  华盛顿讯-美国研究员周四报告，进食过量导致大脑功能紊乱，引发一系列的损害，从而导致糖尿病、心脏病和其他疾病。
• 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。
• Connecting those strands is critical to diagnosing and restoring balance to an immune system gone haywire in a disease like Lassa fever.
  将这些线索联系在一起对于像拉沙热导致的免疫系统紊乱的诊断以及平衡的保持是至关重要的。
• The picture is going haywire.
  这图象歪歪扭扭的。
• All my senses of proportion instantly went haywire.
  我所有的辨别能力立刻失常。
• 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。
• 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。
• Suddenly the dials went haywire.
  刻度盘突然乱了套。
• Overwritten files, images ( or CSS or JavaScript) mysteriously "changing", and pages going haywire in totally different sections of the site than you expected.
  覆盖的文件、图像（或CSS或JavaScript）被神秘地“更改”，页面乱七八糟地分散在站点中与您预期完全不同的部分中。