snakes and ladders

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it. uncountable
  2. Any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random. figuratively,uncountable
    — Teachers, senior teachers, and principal teachers would have built-in status and the scales would offer well-defined career prospects instead of the ambiguous and often misleading snakes-and-ladders situation which at present exists.

词形变化

snakes-and-ladders alternative
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