"a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton
"his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
turned or twisted to one side;
"rugs lying askew"
"with his necktie twisted awry"
away from the correct or expected course;
"something has gone awry in our plans"
"something went badly amiss in the preparations"
not functioning properly;
"something is amiss"
"has gone completely haywire"
"something is wrong with the engine"
awry 片语
片语
go awry失败;出错
look awry斜视
Turn Awry转变歪曲
Looking Awry斜目而视透过通俗文化看拉康
tread awry失败;出错
awry orderly扭曲的
take awry歪曲
aligned awry排一线的
awry 例句
英汉例句
the harvesting projects can go awry if they focus too heavily on the quantity of food gathered.
收获项目可能会出现偏差——如果他们过分专注于收集到食物的数量的话。
however, in other cases the presence of a rule violation in ones code can be a red flag that something can go seriously awry at runtime, even if the compiler lets it slip by.
and the kids soon learn that all projects go awry -- (laughter) and become at ease with the idea that every step in a project is a step closer to sweet success, or gleeful calamity.