ramshackle

英 [ˈræmʃækl]

美 [ˈræmʃækl]

adj.  摇摇欲坠的; 破烂不堪的; 组织松散(不能持久)的; 行将瓦解的

过去分词：ramshackled　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.18765 / COCA.17157

牛津词典

adj.

• 摇摇欲坠的；破烂不堪的
  in a very bad condition and needing repair
• 组织松散（不能持久）的；行将瓦解的
  badly organized or designed and not likely to last very long

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （建筑）破烂不堪的，摇摇欲坠的
  Aramshacklebuilding is badly made or in bad condition, and looks as if it is likely to fall down.
  1. They entered the shop, which was a curious ramshackle building.
     他们进了商店，那是幢年久失修的奇特建筑。
• ADJ-GRADED （系统、联盟、收集物等）草率组合成的，拼凑的
  Aramshacklesystem, union, or collection of things has been put together without much thought and is not likely to work very well.
  1. They joined with a ramshackle alliance of other rebels.
     他们和一个由其他反叛者草草拼凑成的同盟联起手来。
  2. ...the present tax system, which the opposition says is ramshackle and complicated.
     被反对派批评为草率且复杂的现行税收体系

英英释义

adj

• in deplorable condition
  1. a street of bedraggled tenements
  2. a broken-down fence
  3. a ramshackle old pier
  4. a tumble-down shack
  Synonym:bedraggledbroken-downderelictdilapidatedtatterdemaliontumble-down

双语例句

• The facilities, by the standards of other British independent schools, are ramshackle.
  按照英国其它私立学校的标准衡量，其教学设施可谓破旧不堪。
• On the far bank there was a ramshackle one-room brick house, where three of the farmers lived& a husband, wife and teenage son.
  在远处的河岸，有一间摇摇欲坠的砖头房子，里面有一只照明的电灯泡，那里住着三个农民&丈夫、妻子和十几岁的儿子。
• The financial crisis started from august 2007 in the United States, which not only make the American financial system ramshackle also let the word economy facing a huge pressure. It is still the international concerns.
  于2007年8月开始席卷美国金融市场的经济危机，不仅使该国金融体系摇摇欲坠，还让世界经济面临着巨大压力，至今仍是国际关注点。
• A street of bedraggled tenements; a broken-down fence; a ramshackle old pier; a tumble-down shack.
  满街破旧的房屋；破旧的篱笆；摇摇欲坠的老码头；摇摇欲坠的小木屋。
• He has commandeered a shed outside his parents 'ramshackle farmhouse as a personal workshop, where scrap metal litters the dirt floors.
  他强占了他父母快要倒塌的农屋外的一间小棚子作为加工车间，脏乱的地上四处丢着废金属板。
• The hpublic transport system, mostly ramshackle trains and minibus taxis, is also strained.
  主要由快要散架的火车和小公共汽车组成公交系统同样吃紧。
• When I last visited the Pudong District of Shanghai, in the mid-1990s, it was a ramshackle area of factories and warehouses.
  我在上世纪90年代中期走访上海浦东区时，那里是一片杂乱不堪的工厂与仓库聚集地。
• The principal remembers one mother who fell on hard times and took her children back to rural Guangxi, where the local school was a ramshackle affair with poor lighting and dirt floors.
  何少杰记得，有一位处境艰难的母亲把孩子带回了广西农村老家：那里的学校破破烂烂，照明条件很差，地面都是泥做的。
• Showers followed me along the potted road that runs through misty gorges and ramshackle hamlets to the village in which Yang Yali was raised.
  我伴着雨水，沿着坑坑洼洼的小路，穿过烟雨蒙蒙的峡谷、破旧的村落，到达杨雅莉生长的村庄。
• Their first car was a ramshackle affair.
  他们第一辆车破烂不堪。