alphabet soup

基本解释

Asking them to tell you how they really feel becomes like asking someone to read alphabet soup aloud while the soup is being stirred.
让他们告诉你他们的真实感受变成了让人大声读出字母型花片汤当汤杯不停搅拌的时候。
Therefore, the real key to the alphabet soup of ETL vs. ELT vs. TEL, is flexibility and the ability to support the technique that best suits the job at hand.
因此，对于 ETL、ELT 和 TEL 这道字母汤而言，真正的关键在于灵活性，并且能够支持最适合所处理工作的技术。
“I couldn't even read a newspaper because the letters on the page looked like alphabet soup, ” she recalled during a recent interview in her home in Arlington, Va.
在最近的一次在她的家乡（弗吉尼亚州阿林顿）对她的采访中她说：“那段时间，我几乎连报纸都不能读，因为那些报纸上的字母看起来就像字母汤。”

There are few subjects more tedious than audits and oversight of the alphabet soup empire of the U.N.
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In the alphabet soup of Washington, ATRA fixed the AMT, sort of.
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There is an alphabet soup of welfare programs that create disincentive to seek gainful employment.
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a type of soup that contains small pieces of pasta (= a food made from flour and water) in the shape of letters
a confused mixture that is difficult to understand, often because it contains a lot of abbreviations (= short forms of words) and acronyms (= abbreviations formed from the first letters of each word in the name of something)