on the rocks

基本解釋

Boats often pile up on the rocks in the shallow water.
船常常在淺水処觸礁擱淺。
So now that the euro project is on the rocks, what lessons should we draw?
因此，既然歐元項(xiàng)目麪臨破産，我們應(yīng)該汲取什麼樣的教訓(xùn)？
Five years and two children later, the marriage was on the rocks, with the husband away working in East Asia.
過了五年和有了兩個(gè)孩子後，婚姻觸礁了，因爲(wèi)這個(gè)丈夫離開去東亞工作。

People also sit on the beach and on rocks in the fishing village of Menemsha to watch the sunsets.
But if I join a fraternity and they pour cow poop on my head and make me stand in the rain for a month wearing pantyhose while they throw rocks at me I then think--after it I think "God, I went through a lot of stuff to get into this fraternity.
但如果我加入之前，他們要往我頭上潑牛糞,要我穿著女內(nèi)褲在雨中站一個(gè)月,他們還朝我扔石頭,事後我就會想,”爲(wèi)了加入這個(gè)兄弟會我喫了不少苦頭“
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
The easiest way to get the rest of the oil out is to place heavy rocks on the crushed material.

By then the whole country had heard that the couple's 10-year marriage was on the rocks.
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