applecart是什么意思？

applecart

英[æpl'kɑ:t] 美[æpl'kɑt]

• n. 苹果车；

例句

• Hospitality, people just go out the door slammed up front, the hospitality will upset the applecart. 热情招待朋友之后, 人刚走出去就把大门砰地关起,前面的款待也将前功尽弃.
• Don't let Barry know about our plans for the ski trip or he'll applecart. 别让巴里知道我们要去滑雪的事情,他会坏事的.
• Her refusal to help quite upset the applecart. 她不肯帮忙,计画也就落空了.
• They may also be friends of the chairman, so they are reluctant to upset the applecart. 他们也可能是主席的朋友，所以他们不愿从中作梗。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• PHRASE
  破坏计划;扰乱制度;打乱安排
  If you upset the applecart, you do something which causes a plan, system, or arrangement to go wrong.
  例句
  They may also be friends of the chairman, so they are reluctant to upset the applecart. 他们也可能是主席的朋友，所以他们不愿从中作梗。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart'
  2. a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street