tsunami, unravel, breaking point, in the same boat

Financial Times
‘The war has exploded,’ Dr Daniele Macchini wrote in Bergamo, Italy. ‘There are no more surgeons, urologists, orthopaedists — we are only doctors who suddenly become part of a single team to face this tsunami.’

Crisis highlights challenges other European countries could face if containment fails

FT.COM
Coronavirus ‘tsunami’ pushes Italy’s hospitals to breaking point







Turkey’s push to become a world power is unraveling.

On Monday, Greece faced the most serious political crisis since Prime Minister Antonis Samaras took power, and his governing coalition appeared on the verge of unraveling.


Pancks (Eddie Marsan), an unsavory debt collector, is especially well drawn. He seems at first like a heartless and decidedly repulsive specimen, but beneath his coarse speech and strange facial tics, Pancks reveals a good heart and a sharp nose for unraveling secrets; he forms an unlikely alliance with the genteel Clennam to revive the Dorrit family fortunes.

We're all in the same boat now.




Fear of disease can change everyday habits. Sometimes that’s a good thing.

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be in the same boat とは【意味】境遇を共にする... 【例文】Where monetary policy is concerned, Japan and Germany seem to be in the same boat....


「In the same boat」の意味と使い方 「I'm in the same boat」直訳すると「私も同じ船に乗っています」になりますが、相手と同じ問題を抱えたり、同じような苦労をして共感できる気持ちを表す便利なフレーズです。 「Boat（船）」を「困難な状況」として考えると分かりやすいでしょう。2014/01/15


unravel
/ʌnˈrav(ə)l/

verb


gerund or present participle: unraveling


1.


undo (twisted, knitted, or woven threads).



類義語:


untangle






disentangle






straighten out





separate out





unsnarl






unknot






unwind






untwist






undo






untie






unkink






unjumble






対義語:


entangle






tangle

































2.


investigate and solve or explain (something complicated or puzzling).


"they were attempting to unravel the cause of death"


unravel


verb


UK
/ʌnˈræv.əl/ US
/ʌnˈræv.əl/




-ll- or US usually -l-




unravel verb (CLOTH)





[ I or T ]


If a piece of knitted or woven cloth, a knot, or a mass of thread unravels, it separates into a single thread, and if you unravel it, you separate it into a single thread:


You'd better mend that hole before the whole sweater starts to unravel.


I had to unravel one of the sleeves because I realized I'd knitted it too small.