on the rocks

基本解释

Boats often pile up on the rocks in the shallow water.
船常常在淺水処觸礁擱淺。
So now that the euro project is on the rocks, what lessons should we draw?
因此，既然歐元項目麪臨破産，我們應該汲取什麽樣的教訓？
Five years and two children later, the marriage was on the rocks, with the husband away working in East Asia.
過了五年和有了兩個孩子後，婚姻觸礁了，因爲這個丈夫離開去東亞工作。

People also sit on the beach and on rocks in the fishing village of Menemsha to watch the sunsets.
But if I join a fraternity and they pour cow poop on my head and make me stand in the rain for a month wearing pantyhose while they throw rocks at me I then think--after it I think "God, I went through a lot of stuff to get into this fraternity.
但如果我加入之前，他們要往我頭上潑牛糞,要我穿著女內褲在雨中站一個月,他們還朝我扔石頭,事後我就會想,”爲了加入這個兄弟會我喫了不少苦頭“
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The easiest way to get the rest of the oil out is to place heavy rocks on the crushed material.

By then the whole country had heard that the couple's 10-year marriage was on the rocks.
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