单词down the drain
un.: 〔电子〕漏板；〔医〕引流管；〔技〕放水口。；白扔掉
白扔掉
〔电子〕漏板;〔医〕引流管;〔技〕放水口。
The trouble with trying to maintain an old car is that you"re always pouring money down the drain to keep it roadworthy.
试图维修这辆旧车的困难在于，总要花大本钱才能使它开得动。
After such a painful adjustment before deciding the direction of development, strategic blunders made profitable gas% down the drain.
经过这样痛苦的调整才确定了发展方向，战略的失误使得赢利的60%化为乌有。
We have said it would all be sudden as the dark whirlwind goes down the drain, just as you see water swirl down a drain.
我们曾说过一旦黑暗势力白白浪费良机，这就会很突然的发生，就像水被漩涡吸走那样迅猛。
Hackett was prepared to pour the batch down the drain if it tasted awful.
如果味道糟糕的话，哈科特准备倒掉这批酒。
He said "our banking system is going to lose hundreds of billions of dollars" and taxpayer money was "going down the drain" .
他说：不仅“我们的银行体系将要损失数以千亿的美元”，而且纳税人的钱也会付诸东流。
"My esteem for the Japanese government has completely gone down the drain, " she said.
“我彻底失去了对日本政府的尊敬。”她说。
His fortune went down the drain when he began drinking heavily and gambling in casinos .
自从他开始酗酒又在赌场赌博，他的财产渐渐挥霍殆尽。
Right. -You know, when they go down the drain, when you don"t use all of the container, what do you end up doing with it?
对。-你知道，在进入下水道后，在你没用完容器内的所有清洁剂时，你最后会拿它怎么办？
Daisy was in the bathroom. She was brushing her teeth and the tap was on. Water was pouring into the washbasin and vanishing down the drain.
黛西在浴室里。那时她正在刷牙，但是水龙头开着。水流入水槽，消失在下水道中。
All of his hopes and dreams of one day becoming the company"s CEO went down the drain when the company went bankrupt.
随着公司的破产，他所有的希望以及有朝一日成为公司总裁的梦想都破碎了。