It felt as though he was being sucked down a giant plughole.

他仿佛被吸进了一个巨大的插座孔里。

Repelled by insect life, David sloshes liquid bleach down the shower plughole to exterminate red worms—the " Bashar al-Assad approach" , he notes darkly.

大卫对昆虫的生命感到厌恶， 他将液体漂浴的塞孔中以消灭红虫——他阴暗地指出， 这就是“巴沙尔·阿萨德的做法”。

So people on social media were really putting these two things together and thinking this bank is going down the plughole.

因此， 社交媒体上的人们将这两件事联系起来， 并认为这家银行要完蛋了。