rattletrap

1 And for ordinary citizens, getting hold of even the worst rattletrap involved many years of waiting.

但对于普通市民来说，即使想拥有一辆最破旧的老爷车也得等上好多年。

2 After Gates went off to Harvard, Allen drove his rattletrap Chrysler cross-country to continue their collaboration.

盖茨去哈佛大学后，艾伦开着他的克莱斯勒牌老爷车横穿美国继续他们的合作。

3 Are you still driving that old rattletrap?

4 My final critique reflects something that Cotter and his colleagues are well aware of: The Elf seems a bit of a rattletrap.

5 But the story doesn’t coalesce—to the extent that anything in the rattletrap narrative ever comes together—until the heroine gets a job at a fashionable department store.

6 Given the rattletrap American health care system — which is far, far worse than Italy's — even that would probably not be sufficient.

7 The raucously rattletrap musical selections add a fitting, pungent quality to this delirium.

8 From Pickwick Lake, the Mississippi DFW reports Alabama-rigs, single swimbaits, rattletraps, jerkbaits, and spinnerbaits are all catching pre-spawn bass.

9 But the daily reality for San Bernardino’s finest is entirely different: a corps savaged by budget cuts, rattletrap equipment, crushing workloads and sunken morale.

10 Saugeye have been biting around the rocky points of the main lake, mostly on small silver crankbaits and rattletraps.

11 In the post-Soviet era, demand for the boxy rattletraps plunged ruinously in the face of foreign competition.

12 His rattletrap car really amazed us.

他那辆破旧的老爷车确实让我们惊讶不已。

1 破旧的

conked-out beaten ragged dilapidated seedy sleazy decrepit scrubby clapped poky moth-eaten rinky-dink klunky tattery old shot poor aged rusty shabby wretched run-down scruffy raunchy creaky ratty beat-up dog-eared bedraggled unwearable scrubbed raddled flea-bitten crocky

2 格格作响

tirl

3 破旧车辆

crate

4 杂物

medley rummage waifs and strays

5 琐碎之物

kickshaw

6 破旧汽车

bomb gig crate jalopy jitney junkheap

7 摇晃的

staggering cranky wobbly unsteady rickety

8 摇晃

staggering cranky wobbly unsteady rickety shake swing sway quake stagger tremble waver teeter shimmy toss wobble swag agitate falter

9 嘴

oscular cake-hole potato-trap row mouth trap lip tongue chop hatch mug nozzle faucet nib spout mush gash pucker gob puss maw kisser smush smacker rattrap bazoo

10 老爷汽车

jalopy

11 破旧

conked-out beaten ragged dilapidated seedy sleazy decrepit scrubby clapped poky moth-eaten rinky-dink klunky tattery seediness shabbiness scruffiness old shot poor aged rusty shabby wretched run-down scruffy raunchy creaky ratty beat-up dog-eared bedraggled unwearable scrubbed raddled flea-bitten crocky raunch

12 老爷车

banger skedonk bus jalopy veteran car vintage car

13 饶舌者

rattler gasbag jackdaw newsmonger