英:[ˈræmʃækl]
美:[ˈræmˌʃækəl]
英:[ˈræmʃækl]
美:[ˈræmˌʃækəl]
ram·shack·le
raem shae kl
Adjective
1. in deplorable condition;
"a street of bedraggled tenements"
"a broken-down fence"
"a ramshackle old pier"
"a tumble-down shack"
"松散连接,制作粗糙或状况不佳; 混乱或可能崩溃",1809年,这是 ramshackled 的另一种形式,早些时候是 ranshackled(1670年代),这是 ransackled 的变体,是 ransackle 的过去分词(源自与 ransack 相同的源头)。"主要用于描述马车和房屋"[OED]。这种词形似乎最初是苏格兰的。
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]
当我把这个便条读给一位美国绅士听时,他似乎感到警惕,担心 ramshackle 这个词会被用在他的国家上。我乐意接受它,作为一种苏格兰主义,而且应用得很好,这将在后面展示。[Robert Gourlay, "General Introduction to a Statistical Account of Upper Canada," London, 1822]
Jamieson 的《苏格兰语词源词典》(1825)将其定义为名词,意思是"轻率,无知的家伙"。
alteration of earlier ransackled, from past participle of obsolete ransackle, frequentative of ransack
The first known use of ramshackle was in 1830
ranch1 of 2noun
a place for the raising of livestock (as cattle, horses, or sheep) on range
a farm devoted to a specific crop or kind of animal a mink ranch
a fruit ranch
ranch house sense 2
ranch2 of 2verb
to live or work on a ranch
ramshackleadjective
looking ready to fall down
a ramshackle old barn
1 But the well-worn, ramshackle Mumbai apartment where Riana’s family lives, radiates chaotic well-being.
2 When rain is not flooding the ramshackle tents and tarps, the summer sun turns them into hothouses.
当雨水还没淹没掉摇摇欲坠的帐篷和油布时,夏日的骄阳先把它们变成了暖房。
3 The new paradigm of collaborative research pursued in the ramshackle Rad Lab surprised visitors bred in the insular working style still prevalent in academia.
4 T - Bag and Self arrive at a ramshackle storefront church.
西奥多 和赛尔夫抵达了一座快要倒闭的沿街的教堂前.
5 The contrast between the rich score and the artfully ramshackle set is sharp.
6 The two ramshackle rooms, built from zinc and porous bricks, like the ones on Fifteenth Avenue, overlooked the street, and were part of a row of similarly constructed tenements partitioned by narrow, dark, rat-infested alleyways.
7 The makeshift band’s tunes feature on the soundtrack, and an album of ramshackle garage folk-punk is potentially on the cards.
8 Out to the left side of the road was Bloomsdale, a ramshackle, all-black enclave that its residents, employing an advanced sense of irony, had long called “Hollywood.”
9 It sits beside railroad tracks, a ramshackle heap with a spotless interior.
10 Whistler sketched its chaos compulsively, capturing a ramshackle world of low dives and squalid lodgings, a cacophony of sails, booms and masts, barges, bridges and passenger ferries.
11 In 1922, twelve years after it opened, the Commissioner-General of Immigration declared Angel Island to be filthy and unfit for habitation—“the ramshackle buildings are nothing but firetraps,” he warned.
12 Fabienne is a bit ramshackle in the way that Lee Israel is in that movie.”
13 I live alone in a ramshackle Austin house that, by all accounts, was constructed by a drunkard before the advent of the square right angle.
14 Finn left the door open to the breeze and the dirt and the frantic, inconsolable cat and stomp-limped to the ramshackle blue house across the street.
15 To some, “Garnet’s Gold” will seem like a ramshackle tale, while others will endlessly parse it for insights.
16 But guest favorites like the endangered sea turtle program and the Robert Trent Jones-designed golf course remain — as does Sunshine’s, the famous ramshackle bar just down the beach.
17 The sun was beginning to set, glittering red through the cracks between the ramshackle buildings.
18 Hopps was still tearing up the rule book when he started exhibiting art in a ramshackle Los Angeles neighborhood in 1952, barely 20 years old.
19 He tells me about the underground tunnel that leads outside, and the ramshackle town in the fringe, and the conversation with Rafi and Mary.
20 He was drawn to old, ramshackle houses and boggy places in the woods where dead trees stood like Gothic steeples.
1 堕落
degenerate mess lost corrupt vicious fallen prostitute rotten filthy vile degenerative perverse polluted degraded depraved putrid degrading reprobate dissolute godforsaken low-down debauched graceless corruptive scrofulous astray fall soil decline ruin pollution corruption degradation lapse falling degeneration deformity taint filth wallow perversion decadence depravity declination backslide degeneracy derogation declension turpitude putrefaction vitiation pravity sink rot degrade deteriorate perish recoil stoop retrograde dwindle condescend derogate bastardize Neronize pollute deprave vitiate go to the devil go backward go to the mischief go to the bad
2 任性
rackle wild arbitrary naughty impulsive heady unruly wayward indiscriminate wanton capricious wilful headstrong self-indulgent fractious obstreperous thrawn self-assertive self-will abandon freak whim caprice self-indulgence arbitrariness self-assertion indiscrimination
3 无定见的
5 堕落的
degenerate mess lost corrupt vicious fallen prostitute rotten filthy vile degenerative perverse polluted degraded depraved putrid degrading reprobate dissolute godforsaken low-down debauched graceless corruptive scrofulous
7 任性的
rackle wild arbitrary naughty impulsive heady unruly wayward indiscriminate wanton capricious wilful headstrong self-indulgent fractious obstreperous thrawn self-assertive self-will
8 摇晃的
dingledangle crank rocky staggering shaky cranky wonky shaking faltering wobbling tottering totty wambly quaky
9 放荡的
fast loose sporting abandoned corinthian rake riotous profligate licentious libertine dissolute rakish dissipative raffish rackety offcast
10 无定见
11 放荡
fast loose sporting abandoned corinthian rake riotous profligate licentious libertine dissolute rakish dissipative raffish rackety offcast riot bum dissolution drunken folly dissipation orgy debauchery fastness profligacy debauch libertinism orgie sluttery dissipate dolce vita
12 摇晃
dingledangle crank rocky staggering shaky cranky wonky shaking faltering wobbling tottering totty wambly quaky reelingly wamblingly falteringly bumpily rockily totteringly sway stagger lurch crankiness tipsiness rockiness dacker roll dance swim reel flicker wobble falter waver teeter
13 摇摇欲坠
groggy tottery topple totter topple down tumbledown teeter precarious unsound creaky rickety dickey
14 动摇
wavy palsied lambent vibration waver turn reel vibrate wobble falter yo-yo oscillate seesaw shake unsettle
15 失修
18 破烂不堪
19 摇摇欲坠的
groggy tottery rickety tumbledown shacky shambly precarious unsound creaky dickey