in the gutter

基本解释

Every one of the other suggestions in this article is irrelevant if your mind is stuck in the gutter.
如果你的思想陷在絕望之中，本文中的其他每一個建議就沒有相關的了。
The gill flaps opened like two gash wounds on the sides of its head as it thrashed helplessly in the gutter.
它無望地在溝槽中撲打時鰓瓣張開，猶如在它頭部兩側切開了兩道深深的傷口。
One man grumbles about a nightly poker game on car bonnets, another about illicit alcohol-trading, a third about rubbish in the gutter.
一個人抱怨晚上有人在汽車引擎蓋上打撲尅，還有兩個人分別對非法販酒和排水溝裡的垃圾有很大的意見。

After many years in the gutter, U.S. automakers seem to be on the rebound.
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Now, he needs to make sure his stock doesn't wind up in the gutter simply because investors cannot trust him.
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The best we can hope for is that the Dems will wake up in the gutter and be shocked back into sanity one of these days.
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