vicious circle
恶性循环,惡性循環,邪恶的循环
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Definitions
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- : Logic. the use of each of two propositions to establish the other. the use of each of two terms to define the other.
- : a situation in which effort to solve a given problem results in aggravation of the problem or the creation of a worse problem: a vicious circle where the more I give them, the more they expect.
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Raising the vaccination rate is the only way to break this vicious circle.
In the long term, the way out of this vicious circle we are in—and it is a vicious circle, we are stumbling from wave to lockdown, and that can't carry on ad infinitum—is only vaccination.
Paul Theroux’s book, which was adapted as a feature film in 1986, is an allegory for the vicious circle of colonialism nested within an adventure narrative.
“Vicious pecking, avian hysteria, mysterious deaths, and even cannibalism” are the results, he writes.
So, Linklater just won Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle.
Julio had come full circle and had returned to Cuba as a tourist in his own country.
The late-November hacking of Sony, perhaps the most vicious episode of its kind, comes at the end of the period of mourning.
But most of all, Ramone lingered on Vicious, whom he painted and drew over and over again.
Wharton and Louis had withdrawn their hands at the same instant they caught his eye; and the Duke turned into the circle.
It was the conversation of every circle; and discussed according to the dispositions, or views of the speakers.
We (the officers) were sitting in a circle round the general and Alcalde, both of whom appeared uneasy and anxious.
There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.
His books were read in our homes, often aloud to the family circle by paterfamilias, and moved us to laughter or tears.