Things have come to a pretty pass when you have to be rescued by a black bandleader.

到了需要黑人主唱救场的地步，事情就基本不可挽回了。

Things have come to a pretty pass, if you can’t say what you think without causing a fight.

【pretty，prettily，prettiness】如果你有话直说就一定会引起争吵，那就不妙了。

It was a pretty play from signals, a pretty pass, a pretty shot! Come on, now, everybody! cried Rodney as they lined up again.

当他们再次排好阵型时，罗德尼叫嚷道，手势很棒，传球很棒，进球很棒，加油兄弟们。

Scarlett thought grimly that things were indeed at a pretty pass when horses had shoes and people's feet were as bare as yard dogs'.

思嘉暗想这世道怎么变得这么怪了，马还有鞋穿，而人却像院子里的狗还光着脚呢。