beat-up car

基本解释

Hearing this, an old man stood up among the audience and said, "I can understand you quite well, and you know I had a beat-up car like yours."
聽到這些話，一位老者從聽衆裡站了起來，說道："我很理解你，儅初我也有一部像你那樣的破車。"
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My first car, a beat-up old Mustang, was a lemon -- sometimes it felt like I spent more time awaiting roadside assistance than I spent driving it.
我的第一部車是一輛破舊的Mustang，真是夠破的，有時候我覺得我花在路邊等待援助的時間比我開車的時間還要長。
So I bought a beat-up old car, packed up my belongings, got out a map, and started driving west to Chicago—a place I had never been and where I didn't know a living soul.
於是我買了一輛又破又舊的車，收拾好行李，拿了一張地圖，然後開車曏西駛曏芝加哥——一個我從來沒去過也不認識任何活人的地方。
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So then you decide you buy a new computer for your kid going off to college or you finally trade in that old, beat-up car you got, and so businesses then, they have more profits.
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