1. Before the crisis hit, the government was trying hard to restrain runaway lending. 在这场金融危机来临之前，政府正努力限制贷款流失。
2. Calculations hint that the ensuing disturbance would become self-reinforcing, creating a runaway surge of energy that would wreck the wormhole. 某些计算暗示，接续发生的扰动会自我放大，形成一股失去控制的超大能量，终至毁了蠹孔。
3. If the number 2 daughter is like a runaway train, the number 7 mother is like the engineer in the train pulling on the broken brake leveler but nothing happens. 如果2号型女儿像一列前进的火车，7号型的母亲就像火车上的技师，不断地拉著已经断掉的煞车，结果却改变不了任何事情。
英英解释
n.
1. an easy victory
2. someone who flees from an uncongenial situation adj.
1. completely out of control
