shamble

1 It has been quite frankly exhilarating to watch the company get tighter and tighter, especially at a time when public perception is that Broadway in particular and theater in general are a pandemic shambles.

2 "A shambles," said another and, most witheringly from one dad: "We were all fans and now we hate him."

3 Others — including The New York Times’s Frank Rich, who called the show “a shambles” — felt the problems were more pervasive.

4 And, yes, it’s mildly amusing to watch the cardinals’ farcical desperation as they attempt, with the assistance of the stage manager, to keep the pageant from falling into a confused shambles.

5 His house is a shambles, and he often forgets to pay bills.

6 “Can a man not come back for an axe helve without finding his house a shambles?”

7 Their political and personal lives in shambles, the Underwoods are back from Moscow and still nursing grudges from their fight on Air Force One.

8 So, he shambled across a park dominated by an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, who also used violence to dispossess people of land, only to arrive suddenly at the church, which he didn’t enter.

9 Before puberty, at the beginning of our friendship, we would lie in the darkness in parallel sleeping bags, on the third story of the Victorian house that his father had renovated to splendor from shambles.

10 The smell of dying leaves in the motionless gray morning as he shambled up onto the porch after a night’s fishing, and the full, fine growth in the cedar trees.

11 What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around.

12 Not without reason, Americans are preoccupied with challenges here at home: the coronavirus pandemic, an economy in shambles and turmoil stemming from a reawakening to the persistence of endemic racism.

13 Entire neighborhoods were left in shambles, homes completely flattened.

14 It was in shambles, but he’d seen worse this summer on the sightseeing trips his cousins had taken him on.

15 Movies may have led you to believe heroic astronauts can slip on a space suit and leap to the rescue, but under current designs this would result in Brad Pitt clutching his joints and shambling to a very painful (if handsome) death.

16 As soon as we roused them, they shambled off apologetically.

17 He praised one vibrant floral window that causes “some bounce in your step” and provides an antidote to contemporary art that “reflects a conviction that life is a shambles.”

18 The Kobe-less squad is in shambles, stumbling through what may wind up being the worst season in franchise history.

19 Unlike the shambles that is the DC universe, there’s been a careful build to this very moment when all the characters collide for, what will be for many of them a final showdown.

20 It’s been four years since “the Flare” destroyed the world’s power grid, leaving the United States in shambles.

1 摇摇晃晃地走

reel

2 蹒跚之步伐

toddle

3 拖着脚步走

flat-footed drag shuffle

4 蹒跚

staggering rickety doddery doddered staggery reel stagger falter waver lurch waddle totter hirple titubation teeter hobble stot limp toddle founder flounder dodder halting drunkenly haltingly swag drone stumble joggle wabble tottery reelingly totteringly roll hitch oscillation rock oscillate

5 踉跄

reel stagger flounder dacker falter waver totter welter wamble stumblingly stumble flail bumble dotty faltering

6 踉踉跄跄地走

roll blunder

7 拖着脚走

shuffle scuff

8 蹒跚而行

stumble reel falter lurch hopple waddle