ramshackle

英式音标：[ˈræmʃækl]

美式音标：[ˈræmˌʃækəl]

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概况：

adj. 摇晃的；放荡的

词义：

adj.

要倒似的，要塌似的；摇晃的；没主意的；放荡的

英英释义

ramshackle[ 'ræm,ʃækl ]

adj.in deplorable condition

"a ramshackle old pier"

同义词：bedraggledbroken-downderelictdilapidatedtatterdemaliontumble-down

用法：

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

These ramshackle buildings have fallen down.
那几间危房倒坍了。

权威例句

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同义词：wobbling,shaky,gay,dissolute,dissipated

英语词源：

ramshackle

ramshackle: see ransack

ramshackle (adj.)

1809, back-formation from ramshackled, earlier ranshackled (1670s), alteration of ransackled, past participle of ransackle (see ransack). The word seems to have been Scottish.

Reading over this note to an American gentleman, he seemed to take alarm, lest the word ramshackle should be palmed on his country. I take it home willingly, as a Scotticism, and one well applied, as may be afterwards shown. [Robert Gourlay, "General Introduction to a Statistical Account of Upper Canada," London, 1822]

Jamieson's "Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language" (1825) has it as a noun meaning "thoughtless, ignorant fellow."

造句：

1. a ramshackle antediluvian tenement; antediluvian ideas; archaic laws.

一间摇摇欲坠的古老的房屋；陈旧的思想；古代法律。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

2. It occurred to me that cleared of its ramshackle fences and planted with flowers and grass, it might form a pleasant park.

我不由得想到要是把东倒西歪的栅栏拆除，再栽上花卉草木，这地方倒满可以开辟成一座赏心悦目的公园呢。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. a ramshackle cabin in the woods.

林中一间要倒塌的棚屋

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

4. 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？

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

5. 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。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

6. a ramshackle organization

即将解体的组织.

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

7. At the big ramshackle Baffles Hotel Rule dropped their bags.

鲁尔把他们的行李卸在庞大的摇摇欲坠的拉福尔斯旅馆里。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. lived in a ramshackle, antediluvian tenement;

住在一间摇摇欲坠，太过于陈旧的廉价公寓里;

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例

9. a ramshackle old bus

快要报废的公共汽车

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

10. Their first car was a ramshackle affair.

他们的第一辆车破烂不堪

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例