broken-backed

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But the moment markets started to fret about Italy in July, the strategy looked broken-backed.
但7月，随着意大利财政预算控制计划貌似停滞，市场上开始弥漫对意大利的忧虑情绪。
And someone had been apprehended cutting down trees, a row of elms broken-backed among the VWs and Valiants.
有人因砍树被捕，一排被腰斩的榆树倒在大众和威廉中间。
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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.
主要的补救方法，是创造一个真正的贵金属支持的货币体系来替代黑暗政府破碎不堪的货币体统。
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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