bleeding ulcer

基本解释

General McChrystal himself now calls Marja a “bleeding ulcer”.
现在麦克里斯特尔将军自己将之称为“正在流血的溃疡”。
Neither happened. Stanley McChrystal, then the commander of American forces in Afghanistan, soon fretted that the place had become his “bleeding ulcer”.
不久，驻阿美军指挥官斯坦利•麦克里斯托尔便为那个地方成为他“流血的溃疡”而恼怒。
Marja, described by General Stanley McChrystal last May (before his sacking) as still “a bleeding ulcer”, has been transformed by US Marines with new schools and a bustling market.
去年五月份，史丹利麦克里斯托将军形容马尔贾像一个“仍在流血的溃疡”（这是在他辞职之前说的），现在已经被美国海军陆战队改造成有学校有大型市场的城市了。

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