ramshackle
ramshackle 英 [ˈræmʃækl] 美 [ˈræmˌʃækəl]
adj. 摇晃的；放荡的
- Is your house in terrible condition? Does the roof leak? Is it half tumbling down? Congratulations! It's ramshackle — in other words, in terrible condition and barely holding together.
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- adj. 摇晃的；放荡的
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1. We came across a small lake to one side of which was this deserted and ramshackle village.
我们穿过一个小湖来到他的另一边就是这个破败的小村落了。
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2. One night, in a surfeit of sleeplessness, the poet leapt suddenly into a dream in which he stood in a room in a ramshackle house.
一天晚上，过度失眠中的诗人忽然坠入梦乡，梦里，他就站在那幢摇摇欲坠的房子的一个房间里。
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3. When I go into classrooms, whether they're ramshackle, makeshift classes in some slum in a city or a nice rural location, the kids are just wide eyed. All they want is knowledge and information.
我走进教室--无论是在某座城市贫民窟里摇摇欲坠、临时拼凑的教室，还是在一间漂亮的乡村教室，都会看到孩子们张大着充满渴望的眼睛，期待知识和信息。
- 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.
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