guài
quān

common
noun
technical

Meaning of 怪圈

怪圈 means vicious cycle; intractable loop; a perplexing or undesirable situation that is hard to break out of. Pronounced guài quān.

  • vicious cycle; intractable loop; a perplexing or undesirable situation that is hard to break out of

Definitions & Examples

Yǒu
xiē
zǒng
tiào
chū
 
yuè
qióng
yuè
duō
shēng
hái
zi
 
yuè
duō
shēng
hái
zi
yuè
qióng
 
de
guài
quān
 

Some regions are always trapped in the vicious cycle of 'the poorer they are, the more children they have, and the more children they have, the poorer they become'.

xiàn
le
áo
dǎo
zhì
xiào
 
xiào
yòu
áo
de
guài
quān
 

He is caught in a vicious cycle where staying up late leads to low efficiency, and low efficiency forces him to stay up late again.

Zhè
jiā
gōng
de
guǎn
xiàn
le
xiāng
tuī
wěi诿
 
xiào
xià
de
guài
quān
 

The management of this company is stuck in a vicious cycle of buck-passing and low efficiency.

Yào
fáng
jià
yuè
zhǎng
 
rén
men
yuè
xiǎng
mǎi
fáng
de
guài
quān
fēi
cháng
kùn
nan
 

It is very difficult to break the vicious cycle where rising housing prices make people even more eager to buy.

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