asleep at the wheel
基本解釋
- 睡在輪邊(Asleep At The Wheel,美國鄉(xiāng)村音樂樂隊(duì))
- 心不在焉
英漢例句
- It costs nothing to hide behind this defense, and who wants to admit that they were asleep at the wheel or not looking out the window?
藏在這道防線后面不會(huì)付出任何成本,而誰又愿意承認(rèn)自己開車時(shí)在方向盤上睡著了,或者根本沒有觀察窗外呢? - “Thailand is asleep at the wheel,” he says, noting that despite years of education campaigns, condom use is still not as widespread as he would like.
“泰國睡在輪邊?!?他說,并指出,盡管教育活動(dòng)已經(jīng)開展多年,安全套的使用仍然沒有他希望的那樣普遍。 - Vladimir Putin, then Russian president and now prime minister, made Moscow’s fury plain to President Bush afterward in Sochi, but Bush, no surprise, was asleep at the wheel.
弗拉迪米爾·普金,過去的俄羅斯總統(tǒng)現(xiàn)在的總理,隨后在索契向布什總統(tǒng)直截了當(dāng)?shù)乇磉_(dá)了莫斯科的暴怒,但布什無疑是有些心不在焉了。 - by Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel; and Lucinda William's "Little Honey."
- He has returned home after falling asleep at the wheel of his car.
NEWYORKER: Lives in Limbo - He feels like a man who has fallen asleep at the wheel and has awakened to find his car lurching off a cliff.
NEWYORKER: The TV - Those who should be monitoring compensation—pension funds, mutual funds and foundations—have not only been asleep at the wheel: they have been actively complicit in the debacle.
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