ramshackle
英 ['r?m??k(?)l]
美
- adj. 搖晃的；放蕩的
GRE低頻詞
中文詞源
ramshackle 搖搖欲墜
回構自 ramshackled,搖搖欲墜的，改寫自 ransackled,被打劫的，來自 ransack,洗劫，掠奪。
英文詞源
- ramshackle
- ramshackle: see ransack
- 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.
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]
Jamieson's "Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language" (1825) has it as a noun meaning "thoughtless, ignorant fellow."
雙語例句
- 1. They joined with a ramshackle alliance of other rebels.
- 他們和一個由其他反叛者草草拼湊成的同盟聯(lián)起手來。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. They entered the shop, which was a curious ramshackle building.
- 他們進了商店，那是幢年久失修的奇特建筑。
來自辭典例句
- 3. At the big ramshackle Baffles Hotel Rule dropped their bags.
- 魯爾把他們的行李卸在龐大的搖搖欲墜的拉福爾斯旅館里.
來自辭典例句
- 4. T - Bag and Self arrive at a ramshackle storefront church.
- 西奧多 和賽爾夫抵達了一座快要倒閉的沿街的教堂前.
來自互聯(lián)網
- 5. These ramshackle buildings have fallen down.
- 那幾間危房倒坍了.
來自互聯(lián)網
