rathole

1 "We need to see how basically deep the rathole goes," he said.

2 But voting against the white people’s party and driving their white supremacist followers back into the ratholes they came from is a good start.

3 Even though her next house was a marked improvement, Taylor found ratholes in the backyard, and her kitchen floor bore evidence of mice, which she learned were inflaming her family's asthma.

4 The house was a real—I won't curse on the podcast, but, you know, a rathole, let's say.

5 As a BaT commenter, “I try to keep conversations from going down a rathole,” he added.

6 This is a wonderful rathole for investment billions.

7 When I try to describe the civic and cultural value of architecture, I sometimes contrast entering Grand Central, the city’s great gateway, with the experience of arriving at the rathole that is Penn Station.

8 We need to consider capturing and converting carbon by a means that doesn’t mean injecting in a rathole hoping it won’t escape.

9 I can disappear down a rathole of books on, say, the history of the Congo or special operations in Southeast Asia for years.

10 I threw one rock and hit the rathole but the rat had disappeared.

我扔过去一块石头,砸到了老鼠洞,但是老鼠不见了.

11 Opposition to throwing money down a rathole is not pigheaded.

12 “I’m sure Jeff never imagined that he would recapture all the equity that was drained into the rathole, but he was going to do his best,” Viebranz says.

13 “But when it comes to referendums on the local and state level, 73 percent of projects have been approved. People don’t see them as sending their money down a rathole.”

14 Many conservatives and libertarians routinely talk as if all government spending goes down a rathole.

15 We are ready for anything; and he, without waiting for a reply, applies his mouth to one of the ratholes.

16 His last sum of money went down the rathole when he tried to save an old friend from bankruptcy.

他在企图挽救他的老朋友免遭破产时白费了他最后一笔钱。

17 Since these cases have already been debunked by official investigations, the gambit leads nowhere but down a rathole.

18 The naysayers talked about socialism, government takeover and money down a rathole.

19 California has spent billions of dollars to comply with federal demands, he said: “We can’t pour more and more dollars down the rathole of incarceration.”

20 You sneaked up to me in the dark; you felt me out before you said a word; you were like a cat watchin' a rathole.

1 导孔

counterbore

2 无底洞

chaos

3 鼠穴

mouse hole

4 掩藏

conceal

5 肮脏的地方

tip dump piss-hole

6 陋室

but and ben

7 贮存

stock reservoir repertory save hive repose

8 隐藏

closet hiding ob- hide mask sink bury compensate obscure conceal cloak shroud hoard secrete