Since I dropped it on the floor my watch has gone completely haywire. 我的表掉在地板上以後,就完全乱了套。
I had arranged to do the shopping when we got back from our holiday, but my plans went haywire when the train was three hours late. 我本来安排好了我们度假回家后的购物计划,但是火车晚点3小时,把我的计划全搅乱了。
I want the right time. My watch seems to have gone haywire. 我需要知道正确的时间;我的表好像坏了。
haywire
[ noun ]
wire for tying up bales of hay
<noun.artifact> [ adj ]
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
<adj.all> it used to drive my husband balmy
not functioning properly
<adj.all> something is amiss has gone completely haywire something is wrong with the engine
"With great shock and horror," Mr. Bradbury says, Worthen executives studied the bank's $1.4 billion loan portfolio and found "a lending practice gone haywire."
At the very least, financial control seems to have gone haywire.
Then it all goes haywire.
During the 1980s, when Western governments were recovering their monetary virtue, the banking system went haywire, spurred on by the demand for loans on the back of inflated asset prices.