The saying that looks like something the cat dragged in describes something in bad condition.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

As a young person, you should be enjoying your youth and not getting dragged in to some huge investment bank.

作为一个年轻人，你应该享受你的青春,而不是拖进投行的泥潭里。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So what is shown here is the potential solution to potentially read out neural signals dragged from the brain and use these signals after some interpretations or decrypting if you will to drive prosthetic arms or computer cursors on the screen.

大家现在看到的是一种可能的解决方案,有助于解读病人大脑发出的神经信号,同时在经过翻译或者解码之后,使用这些信号，驱动假臂,或者电脑屏上的光标。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

'Let me go!'" "Sid,ignoring her pleas, half dragged her across the room.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

But, it ceased being funny, and it was nothing like the siege of Leningrad where something like a million people died in World War Two of starvation; but, there were all sorts of little caskets being dragged along to what passed then for mortuaries.

但是,这不再那么有趣了,而这和列宁格勒之围比就相形见绌了,二战时期的大概有一百万人,被活活饿死,但是,巴黎有各种棺材,被拖到太平间去

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Ryan has lost a lot of traps that way. But he's also dragged up things ships have lost.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Only one candidate will win, and she said people should not be dragged into demonstrations against the results by any of the losing candidates.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

As negotiations for their release dragged on, Lindhout says she was routinely beaten and forced to call her mother by phone to plead for payment.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26