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At the hearing, Senator John McCain described it as “a train wreck” and accused Lockheed Martin of doing “an abysmal job”.
在听证会上，参议员约翰·麦凯恩将其描述为“列车残骸”，并指责洛·马在做“一件糟糕的工作”。
She was no train wreck—nothing of the sort—but she stood still, and oddly so, occasionally sipping water and swaying little.
她不是失事火车残骸，远不是这类人，但她仍然保持这样，很奇怪，有时抿几口水，喷出来一点。
A lot of us saw this train wreck coming.
我们很多人都看到了这火车即将来临的失事。

They accidentally record a train wreck and, in the process, uncover a top-secret military project.
a financial train wreck between the deficit social security and medical care.
就是社保和医保赤字的烂摊子。
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because we're prolonging basically a train wreck,
因为我们把烂摊子拉长了，
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In other words, what appeared to be a train wreck was truly a train wreck.
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