wrench in the works

常见例句

"This observation throws a wrench in the works, " said Dr. Siepel.
“這一觀測結果給我們的工作造成了很大的麻煩，”西珮爾說。
The publish-and-subscribe framework in JMS defines some functionality that could throw a wrench into the works of our effort to remain vendor neutral.
JMS 中的發佈-然後-訂閲框架定義的一些功能性可能會妨礙我們爲保持供應商獨立而做的努力。
Proxy servers may allow this and handle it gracefully, but they can also throw a monkey wrench in the works.
代理服務器也許可以支持這點竝優雅地処理，但它們同時也可能帶來破壞因素。

But uncertainty about the economy remains high, and gas prices could throw a wrench in the works come summer.
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The proverbial wrench in the works is if the FOMC is making the wrong assumptions about the economy and the direction of interest rates.
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But when something is wrong in the progression—a fly in the ointment, a monkey wrench in the works, a bug in the code—we get hung up along the way, and our logical system breaks down.
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