英语释义

1. an old or badly working piece of machinery especially a dilapidated automobile

2. someone or something notably unsuccessful
told a joke that was a real clunker

3. an old car or machine that does not work well

4. something that is a complete failure

英汉例句

• worshipers at the temple of 「just spell my name right」 may have forgotten that overbranding can take someone「s reputation from ferrari to clunker faster than anyone dreamed possible.

  如果只满足于「他们只要能把我的名字拼对就行」，那你可能忘记了一点：过度的自我炒作可能会导致个人声誉直线下跌，就像以超乎所有人想象的速度从高级法拉利跑车变成年久失修的破车。

• such was the popularity of the scheme, or perhaps the bureaucratic failure of a programme that was rapidly introduced, that some dealers stopped doing clunker deals early.

  这项方案是如此的受欢迎，亦或是一个方案的官僚主义式的失败会很快到来，很多卖家在很早就停止了旧车交易。

• heheh, don」t mention it. you know, you ought to get a new computer to replace that old clunker of yours.

  谢谢你让我用你的电脑。我的电脑最近老出毛病，真气人！

• there remains a danger, however, that compromise will produce a clunker of a bill—one that does little to slow climate change, little to revive the old economy and little to boost a new one.

  不过这就遗留下一种危害——妥协会产生「旧车补贴」法案——对减缓气候变化，革新旧经济体，推动新经济体几乎无济于事。

• hyundai「s messages of the early clunker rebates, along with assurance and the gas lock programs, gave the marketer 「a better and richer story to tell, 」 he said.

  现代汽车早先的旧车回扣口号，和担保计划与油价补贴计划一起，给了营销商更精彩和更丰富的故事去讲，“他说到。

• as of last week, some 457,000 clunker purchases worth some $1.9 billion had been registered.

  上个星期，457000辆，价值总额达到19亿美元的以旧换新的交易已被注册，也许会有更多在计划之中。

• over all, the clunker program will have an impact on lowering fuel consumption, albeit a small one given the number of vehicles involved.

  尽管涉及的汽车量不多，但此次活动对降低燃油消费量具有一定的推动作用。

• chances are we still wouldn’t have a decent browsing experience on the phone, and we certainly wouldn’t be enjoying third party apps like pandora or skype on whatever clunker the carriers handed us.

  很可能我们不能拥有一个像样的手机浏览体验，我们必定不可能享用像pandora或skype这样的第三方应用。

• offer incentives to buy now rather than later; for example, temporary subsidies to consumers who turn in a clunker and buy a new car, a measure adopted in france.

  在当前而非以后，提供消费的诱因；例如，给予消费者临时补助费会让他购置一辆新车以取代老爷车，这在法国进行的如火如荼。

• two years ago investors had no use for jilin aodong medicine industry group or the liaoning cheng da co., two of the many clunker state-owned companies with publicly traded shares.

  两年前投资者对吉林敖东医药工业集团或辽宁成大这两个国有老企业的公开交易股票根本不感兴趣。

• tall and lanky with sloped shoulders, he works meteor-shower hours, driving his clunker to work around 11 a.m. and staying late into the night.

  切斯利又高又瘦，肩膀有点塌，他夜间观测天体，上午11点左右开着那破旧不堪的车去上班，晚上工作到深夜。

• not a single model from g.m. or chrysler made the top 10 list, although g.m. came in second in overall clunker sales.

  虽然通用在活动中的总销售量仅次于丰田，位居第二，但通用和克莱斯勒没有一款车型挤进畅销车十强

• i don」t want to ride in an old beat-up clunker !

  我不想坐又旧又烂的「铜罐仔」车！

• but asian companies like toyota, honda, nissan and hyundai all saw their shares of total cash for clunker sales grow since the last time the government provided data on aug. 5.

  不过从政府8月5日最后一次公布数据至今，丰田、本田、日产和现代等多家亚洲车厂，在方案总销量中所占的比重皆出现成长；

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