whack-a-mole

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwæk.əˌməʊl/|/ˈʍæk.əˌməʊl/    美 /ˈwæk.əˌmoʊl/|/ˈʍæk.əˌmoʊl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A situation where problems or tasks keep reappearing repeatedly. Canada,US,countable,idiomatic,uncountable
    — Trying to get rid of spam e-mails is like whack-a-mole: as soon as you delete one, another appears.
  2. A strategy of addressing recurrent, unpredictable problems in a piecemeal, temporary way at their point of emergence. Canada,US,countable,idiomatic,uncountable

词形变化

whack-a-moles plural Whac-A-Mole alternative whac-a-mole alternative

词源

From whack + a + mole (“a small, burrowing, insect-eating mammal of the family Talpidae”), from the arcade game Whac-A-Mole which involves quickly and repeatedly hitting the heads of mechanical moles with a mallet as they pop up from holes. The name of the arcade game was coined in 1977 when it was first sold in the United States; the original game released in Japan in 1975 was called モグラ退治 (Mogura Taiji, literally “Mole Extermination”).
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