shambles

英 [ˈʃæmblz]

美 [ˈʃæmblz]

n.  混乱局面; 无序的场面; 凌乱不堪; 一片狼藉; 肮脏(或凌乱)的地方
v.  拖着脚走; 蹒跚
shamble的第三人称单数

GRE

BNC.14494 / COCA.15858

牛津词典

noun

• 混乱局面；无序的场面；凌乱不堪；一片狼藉
  a situation in which there is a lot of confusion
  1. The press conference was a complete shambles.
     记者招待会一片混乱。
  2. What a shambles!
     好乱哪！
  3. The government is in a shambles over Europe.
     政府在欧洲问题上政策十分混乱。
• 肮脏（或凌乱）的地方
  a place which is dirty or untidy
  1. The house was a shambles.
     那间屋子凌乱不堪。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING (地方、事件或局势)混乱无序，凌乱不堪，一片狼藉
  If a place, event, or situation isa shamblesor isin a shambles, everything is in disorder.
  1. The ship's interior was an utter shambles...
     船里面一片狼藉。
  2. The economy is in a shambles.
     经济混乱无序。

英英释义

noun

• a building where animals are butchered
  Synonym:abattoirbutcheryslaughterhouse
• a condition of great disorder

双语例句

• For Herge, China was a country in shambles deserving help and sympathy;
  在丁丁眼中，中国是一个积贫积弱，却又十分值得同情和帮助的东方古国；
• The floors where they occurred were a burned-out shambles.
  出事的几层楼变成一堆烧焦了的废墟，狼藉不堪。
• The organization of the event was a total shambles.
  这次活动的组织糟糕透了。
• One wonders how a conference to conclude two years of detailed negotiations, building on more than a decade of previous talks, could have collapsed into such a shambles.
  人们纳闷的是，一场总结两年详尽谈判、并以此前十多年多次谈判为基础的大会，怎么会分崩离析，陷入如此的混乱？
• Her desk is a shambles.
  她的桌子上乱七八糟。
• The ship's interior was an utter shambles
  船里面一片狼藉。
• He left his affairs in a complete shambles when he died.
  他死后，留下了一堆混乱的事务。
• Another thirty-four wounded in the fighting, which left the area a shambles.
  另有三十四人受伤，交战地区成了一片废墟。
• Why after a decade of web distribution is the hotel industry such a shambles!
  为什么经过十来年的网络分销，酒店业如此混乱！
• With incredible detail, the long-forgotten papercuts portray the euphoria and zeal of the era as well as the violence and destruction that left the Chinese economy in shambles.
  这些早已被人遗忘的剪纸用令人赞叹的细节表现着那个时代的幸福和热忱以及暴力和被摧毁后残余的中国经济碎片。