monkey wrench meaning in Chinese
活动扳手[扳钳、扳头]；引起破坏的东西 (throw a monkey into 〔美俚〕〔把活动扳手丢进机器里使不能转动,转为〕妨碍,破坏)。
Examples
- He'd send him to white front garage for a left-handed monkey wrench .
他会叫他到白门面汽车修理店去拿一左旋活动扳手。 - Ustable spanner , monkey wrench
活扳子,活络扳手 - A federal judge threw a monkey wrench into the project to build a new oil refinery on the river
新闻报道说： “联邦法官终止了在河上修建新的炼油厂的工程。 - We were about to begin construction on the building but the contractor threw a monkey wrench into the project
这幢楼我们正要动工，承包商却从中作梗，使工程没法继续。 - The great monkey wrench in that theory was the common gray squirrel , which lives an amazing two decades , yet also expresses telomerase in great quantity
这一理论的主要依据在于普通的灰松鼠，它们可以惊人地存活二十年，并且还有大量的端粒酶表达。