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 Burrow includes a rather large, ramshackle house, a garage, a garden with a small lake, and yards surrounded by hedges.
  陋居包括一座相当大，摇摇欲坠的房子，一间车库，一座带有个小湖的花园，和被树篱围成的院子。
• 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。
• 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 trailer features the botanist who saves the world from the zombie onslaught, as well as the man's ramshackle time machine, and Plants vs. Zombies 2 will take players through levels in past and future eras.
  本次的预告片中，新出现了一位保护世界防止僵尸攻击的植物学家，还有他那破旧不堪的时光机器。《植物大战僵尸2》的玩家可以在游戏中穿越时空。
• 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。
• From the start we were in a race: could we find Grivas before the Colonial Office stitched up a ramshackle deal?
  我们从一开始就处于竞赛状态：我们能在殖民部达成草率的交易之前找到格里瓦斯呢？
• 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。
• There's a ramshackle old shed at the bottom of the garden.
  花园深处有间东倒西歪的旧棚子。
• His colleagues were a ramshackle bunch.
  他的同事是一帮衰迈不堪的人。
• At its zenith the British Empire was almost impossibly grand in conception and yet was frequently so "improvised and provisional in character" as to appear almost ramshackle.
  在大英帝国的鼎盛时期，人们认为它宏伟壮观得几乎不可思议，但它在实际上却常常让人感觉“昙花一现、命不久长”，以至于看起来似乎即将瓦解崩塌。