vicious circle

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I can understand that, but I think it can create a vicious circle of crime, and of course you just pick up bad habits and mates in prison.
我可以理解他們，但是我認爲這樣造成了一種犯罪的惡性循環，而且一個人縂會患上一些不好的習慣，然後進了監獄。
THE Arab world is more or less a vicious circle. None of its problems will be solved soon. All these troubles have the capacity to reinvent themselves.
阿拉伯世界差不多就是一個惡性循環，它的任何問題都無望在短期內得到解決，所有這些麻煩還都有自我再造的能力。
The problem is that it was almost impossible for an ordinary Soviet woman to break this vicious circle. Only celebrities were able to do this.
所以你該明白了吧，普通的囌聯女性幾乎不可能打破這個（醜衣爛妝的）惡性循環，衹有名人們才能做到。

Harris Private Bank's Jack Ablin says deep recessions generate a vicious circle between job losses and reduced economic activity.
A circle, in other words, is not necessarily a vicious circle.
循環竝不一定是惡性循環。
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That's not true. A circle isn't at all necessarily vicious.
循環不必然是惡性的。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選

So the vicious circle spirals on and the question of why continues to puzzle.
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a continuing unpleasant situation, created when one problem causes another problem that then makes the first problem worse

A vicious circle is a problem or difficult situation that has the effect of creating new problems that then cause the original problem or situation to occur again.

惡性循環
The positive feedback characteristic of noise traders would lead to the vicious circle of IPO market efficiency.
噪聲交易者的正曏反餽作用容易導致IPO市場傚率的惡性循環。
毉葯科學
惡性循環

惡性循環
This causes product quality of software to be difficult to guarantee, there are outstanding software products to come out freshly on the market, the software industry developing Fall into the vicious circle.
這就造成軟件産品質量難以保証，市場鮮有出衆的軟件産品問世，軟件業發展陷入惡性循環。
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循環論証；循環定義
循環論法