ramshackle

英語

詞源

首次可考於1830年，是ramshackled 的逆構詞，源自ransackled，ransackle (「洗劫」)的過去式，中古英語 ransaken (「掠奪」)的反覆態。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈɹæmˌʃæk.əl/、英語發音：rămʹshăk'əl

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形容詞

ramshackle (比較級 more ramshackle，最高級 most ramshackle)

1. 破爛的，破舊的，殘破的

   近義詞： 參見Thesaurus:ramshackle

   They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.

   他們待在海灘上一個破破爛爛的小屋裡。

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   • 1914, David Lloyd George, (請指定書籍名或刊物名):

     A ramshackle old empire. (of Austria-Hungary).

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2. 亂七八糟的
   • 2012 9月 7, Dominic Fifield, 「England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova」, 出自 The Guardian‎^[1]:

     So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times.

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   • 2022 10月 5, David Wallace-Wells, 「Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom」, 出自 The New York Times‎^[2]:

     The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.

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動詞

ramshackle (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 ramshackles，現在分詞 ramshackling，一般過去時及過去分詞 ramshackled)

1. (棄用，及物) ransack (「洗劫」)之同義詞