wheels within wheels

释义

1. 错综复杂；盘根错节

   a situation which is difficult to understand because it involves complicated or secret processes and decisions

   There are wheels within wheels in this organization — you never really know what is going on.这个机构里错综复杂，你永远搞不清到底是怎么回事。

电影里这样说 · 2 部

• There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!The Crucible2014
• we are little men, we don't know the ins and outs of the matter, there are wheels within wheels, etc...Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1991

在完整场景里学

• 萨勒姆的女巫2014
  • 为女巫流言逼问侄女：at stake（岌岌可危）
  • 招魂后指认女巫：conjure up（召唤亡灵）
  • 威胁女孩们封口：breathe a word（走漏半点风声）

同一词条的短语

• a cog in the machine
• grease the wheels
• oil the wheels
• reinvent the wheel
• put your shoulder to the wheel
• put a spoke in wheel
• wheel and deal
• wheel out