rickety
adj. 摇晃的；虚弱的；患佝偻病的
adj.
连接处不牢固的，快要散架的；
英英释义
rickety[ 'rikəti ]
adj.
inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
"a rickety table"
同义词：shakywobblywonky
affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets
"rickety limbs and joints"
同义词：rachitic
lacking physical strength or vitality
同义词：decrepitdebilefeebleinfirmsaplessweakweakly
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
The ladder looks rather rickety.
这梯子看起来不怎么牢固。
I was working at a rickety table.
我正在一张摇摇晃晃的桌子边工作。
权威例句
Raging growth and rickety boursesOn the Skeleton of a Rickety Dwarf
Rickety Bridges: Using the Media in Deliberative Democracy
Rickety numbers: Volatility of university rankings and policy implications
Jefferson's Rickety Wall: Sacred and Secular in American Politics
[The spontaneous otitis media in rickety rats]
Translating the humorous style of Bill Bryson: a rickety, confidence-sapping Enterprise
[Comparative histologic and morphometric studies of rickety bone disorders (author's transl)]
A Lively Mind in a Frozen Body: The History of Rickety Kate—an Australian Poet Who Suffered From Rheumatoid Arthritis
Frailty in left ventricular assist device destination therapy: Putting a new motor in a rickety old car running out of gas?
rickety (adj.)
"liable to fall down," 1680s, from rickets (with + -y (2)), via notion of "weak, unhealthy." Literal sense is from c. 1720 but never common in English. Of material things, from 1799.
1. The chair is a bit rickety [shaky].
这椅子有点摇晃。
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2. I saw him padlock the rickety door behind us.
我见他在我们背后把摇摇晃晃的门锁上了。
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3. Practice session over, we make our way down to the beach, finishing our journey down to the shore with a rickety ladder and rope.
练习结束，我们艰难地下到海滩，完成了利用摇晃的梯子和绳子下到海滨的旅程。
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4. For years, the death toll has been mounting among Somalis and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers boats.
这些年，在摇晃的偷渡船中横渡亚丁海湾过程中，索马里人和埃塞俄比亚人的死亡数据不断上升。
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5. Typically, I enter their world by climbing up a rickety, twisting wooden staircase, ducking to avoid bumping my head in the near-total darkness.
我常常在一片漆黑中沿着摇晃曲折的木制楼梯往上走，还要低着头以免撞到什么东西，最后才进入他们的世界。
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6. The only piece of furniture was a rickety dressing-table with water stains, oil stains, milk stains, black, brown, and white stains, and all kinds of mixed stains.
房间里唯一的家具是一个摇摇晃晃的梳妆台，上面满是水渍、油渍和奶渍，布满了黑色的、棕色的和白色的斑点，各种污渍混在一起。
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7. The walls and floors are bare concrete, and prisoners lie on stained mattresses.Personal belongings such as cups or books rest on rickety bedside tables.
牢房的墙壁和地板上裸露着混凝土，囚犯睡在肮脏的垫子上，他们的杯子、书等私人物品就放在摇摇晃晃的床头柜上。
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8. He was also always straightening: fluffing pillows, righting picture frames, sliding back bar stools and getting down on his knees to level a rickety table.
此外，总能发现他在整理店中的东西：弹弹枕头、扶正相框、还原酒吧凳，蹲下来弄平摇摇晃晃的桌子。
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9. Well, the men, male students, who cross the rickety bridge, they wrote these sexy stories with interesting content, with kind of little bit ribald themes.
过摇晃桥的男学生，写的故事很性感，很有爱，还有点淫秽的主题。
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10. It also said that the deficit would narrow only slightly to 8.3% of GDP this year, adding to the sense that troubled euro-area countries are not doing enough to right their rickety public finances.
这更让人感觉受困的欧元区国家没有采取足够措施来恢复其虚弱的公共财政。
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11. Navatudua Pearl Farm consisted of a rickety hut on stilts in the middle of a lagoon.
那瓦图度阿珍珠养殖场由在礁湖中央的在几个高脚柱上摇摇晃晃的小棚屋组成，两个妇女正在从网上学习如何喂养珍珠，大部分珍珠普普通通也有几颗极好的黑珍珠买到了好价钱。
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12. Perhaps the biggest challenge will be to pick apart and permanently entomb what remains within the rickety shelter.
也许最大的困难还是去拆解并永久性埋葬摇摇欲坠的旧掩体中的那些残骸。
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13. A rifle and a harpoon gun were hanging from the wall of his rickety shack.
在纳希破烂不堪的小屋里，墙上挂着一支步枪和一支鱼叉枪。
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14. He had a good idea of what to expect: a slow, rickety ride with a jumble of people crammed against one another on old, uncomfortable seats.
他对他所期望乘坐的绿皮车有着美好的印象：在一列缓缓行驶的列车上，人员杂乱、过道拥挤，人们靠着、倚着那破旧的座位。
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15. But there the consensus ends, and their questions begin: Do we need to sustain the rickety Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai in order to achieve that objective?
然而，在这里达成里一致的意见，在这里问题也产生了：我们需要维护科尔扎伊总统的摇摇欲坠的政府来达成那一目标吗？
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16. Several months earlier his mother had fled Cuba with him for the United States in a rickety boat.
几个月前，他的母亲带着他乘坐一条破旧的小船逃离古巴前往美国。
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17. One by one, they enter a rickety freight elevator, manned by a kind young fellow in a dog collar; he directs them down a long, white hallway.
他们一个接一个地进入到一个破旧不堪的货物升降机中，由一个戴着狗项圈的年轻帅哥来手动控制这台升降机。
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18. Their sheer dedication is underlined by the fact that, in 2005, Simon broke his neck after falling from a rickety wooden bridge in the Brazilian Amazon.
他们的执著可以举个事例来说明：2005年，西蒙在巴西亚马逊河从一条摇摇欲坠的木桥上跌落下来，摔坏了脖子。
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19. Another is the rickety state of back-office plumbing, which was neglected as the market boomed.
另外一个是后台支持的积弱状态，这一点在市场繁荣期被忽视了。
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20. Near the top he stops at a collection of 10 rickety poles stuck into the soil, with corn sacks sagging between them.
快到山顶时他停下了，面前是10根弯曲的插入土里的柱子，玉米袋挂在它们之间。
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21. Near the top he stops at a collection of 10 rickety poles stuck into the soil, with corn sacks sagging between them.
快到山顶时他停下了，面前是10根弯曲的插入土里的柱子，玉米袋挂在它们之间。
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