shambles
shambles 英 [ˈʃæmblz] 美 [ˈʃæmbəlz]
n. 混乱；废墟；屠宰场（shamble的复数） v. 蹒跚而行（shamble的第三人称单数形式）
名词复数:shambless
- Originally a word for a slaughterhouse, shambles now usually means "one heck of a mess," as in "You were supposed to clean your room, but it's still a shambles!
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- n. 混乱；废墟；屠宰场（shamble的复数）
- v. 蹒跚而行（shamble的第三人称单数形式）
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1. And they'll likely be paying for the shambles of the real estate market for a while.
在今后一段时间内，他们仍可能继续为房地产市场的混乱买单。
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2. We’ve seen it in Greece, and we already have a political crisis at the European level, which is a union in shambles.
“我们已经在希腊看到了这一点，并且，欧洲层面的政治危机早已有之，这本来就是个混乱的同盟”。
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3. And the economy Burma was the breadbasket of Asia, it was known for its intellectual people, its wonderful culture and now it is just in total shambles.
缅甸是亚洲的产粮中心，这也是其主要经济来源。 这里有智慧的人民、令人惊奇的文化，但是现在所以一切成了废墟。
- shambles (n.) early 15c., "meat or fish market," from schamil "table, stall for vending" (c. 1300), from Old English scamol, scomul "stool, footstool" (also figurative); "bench, table for vending," an early Proto-Germanic borrowing (Old Saxon skamel "stool," Middle Dutch schamel, Old High German scamel, German schemel, Danish skammel "footstool") from Latin scamillus "low stool, a little bench," ultimately a diminutive of scamnum "stool, bench," from PIE root *skabh- "to prop up, support." In English, sense evolved from "place where meat is sold" to "slaughterhouse" (1540s), then figuratively "place of butchery" (1590s), and generally "confusion, mess" (1901, usually in plural).
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