shambles
英 ['ʃæmb(ə)lz]
美
- n. 混乱；废墟；屠宰场（shamble的复数）
- v. 蹒跚而行（shamble的第三人称单数形式）
英英释义
- 1. a condition of great disorder
- 2. a building where animals are butchered
实用场景例句
- The press conference was a complete shambles.
- 记者招待会一片混乱。
牛津词典
- What a shambles!
- 好乱哪！
牛津词典
- The government is in a shambles over Europe.
- 政府在欧洲问题上政策十分混乱。
牛津词典
- The house was a shambles.
- 那间屋子凌乱不堪。
牛津词典
- The ship's interior was an utter shambles...
- 船里面一片狼藉。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The economy is in a shambles.
- 经济混乱无序。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- No organization would put up its speaker at a shambles like this.
- 没有一个组织会把请来做报告的人放在这样一个破烂的地方.
辞典例句
- The housing market is in shambles.
- 住房市场现在一团糟.
期刊摘选
- The tired old man shambles.
- 那个疲倦的老人蹒跚而行.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- After Japan lost the war, geisha dispersed and the profession was in shambles.
- 日本战败后, 艺妓行业分散而混乱.
期刊摘选
- The meeting ended in a complete shambles.
- 会议结束时混乱不堪.
辞典例句
- And this shambles of a library is laughable.
- 这样一个废墟一样的图书馆简直是个笑话.
期刊摘选
- My room is a shambles.
- 我房间里乱七八糟.
《简明英汉词典》
- I know my mind is a shambles.
- 我知道自己的思想乱七八糟.
辞典例句
- He left his affairs in a complete shambles when he died.
- 他一离开他在十分混乱地方地事业他就死了.
期刊摘选
- The unit is in shambles.
- 现在组织上下乱成一团了.
期刊摘选
- My body's in shambles encrusted with brambles that sharpen the air I breathe.
- 我的身体在废墟镶嵌与荆棘的锐化我呼吸的空气.
期刊摘选
- Her desk is a shambles.
- 她的桌子上乱七八糟.
辞典例句
- Though some reconstruction efforts are underway, much of the region still lies in shambles.
- 尽管一些重建工作一再进行, 但是大部分地区任然是废墟.
期刊摘选
- The general meeting was a complete shambles.
- 大会闹得天翻地覆.
辞典例句
- Your room is ( in ) a shambles. Tidy it up!
- 你的房间乱七八糟. 把它整理一下吧!
辞典例句
- The fighting reduced the city to a shambles.
- 这场战斗使这座城市成了一片废墟.
《简明英汉词典》
- China was a country in shambles during Xu Rongcun's time 159 years ago.
- 159年前徐荣村所处时代的中国积贫积弱,灾难深重.
期刊摘选
- The performance was a shambles.
- 那次的表演不尽人意.
期刊摘选
- The war converted the country into a shambles.
- 战争把该国变成屠杀场.
期刊摘选
- The price of fat in the shambles is of course cheaper than ribs.
- 肉店里囊揣的价格当然比排骨便宜.
期刊摘选
- The generals are not good the best of times, the health system is a shambles.
- 要知道, 那些能征善战的将军未必就是一个国家好的统治者.这里的卫生系统糟糕的一塌糊涂.
期刊摘选
- He's been sent here to sort out this shambles.
- 他被派来收拾烂摊子.
期刊摘选
- After the party the house was a shambles.
- 宴会之后,屋子里一片狼藉.
期刊摘选
- His desk is a shambles.
- 他的写字台乱七八糟.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
中文词源
shambles 屠宰场，混乱，废墟
来自 shamble,肉摊，-s,复数后缀。引申词义屠宰场，比喻义混乱，肮脏之地。其原义见英国 相关街道名，如约克郡古街 The Shambles,曼彻斯特 Shambles Square,原先都是肉市场。
助记提示
1. Shambles Square 新夏波斯广场: 因为以前是卖肉的地方.
2. Shambles Glacier 尚布勒斯冰川: So named by the FIDS because of the very broken nature of the glacier's surface.
3. The Shambles 肉铺街: There are also streets known as "The Shambles" in other towns in the United Kingdom.
2. Shambles Glacier 尚布勒斯冰川: So named by the FIDS because of the very broken nature of the glacier's surface.
3. The Shambles 肉铺街: There are also streets known as "The Shambles" in other towns in the United Kingdom.
双语例句
- 1. I have never seen such a shambles in my life.
- 我一辈子都没见过这么乱七八糟的场面。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The ship's interior was an utter shambles.
- 船里面一片狼藉。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The economy is in a shambles.
- 经济混乱无序。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. We regard the band as a thorough shambles.
- 我们认为那个乐队一塌糊涂。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The press conference was a complete shambles.
- 记者招待会一片混乱。
来自《权威词典》
英文词源
- shambles (n.)
- early 15c., "meat or fish market," from schamil "table, stall for vending" (c. 1300), from Old English scamol, scomul "stool, footstool" (also figurative); "bench, table for vending," an early Proto-Germanic borrowing (Old Saxon skamel "stool," Middle Dutch schamel, Old High German scamel, German schemel, Danish skammel "footstool") from Latin scamillus "low stool, a little bench," ultimately a diminutive of scamnum "stool, bench," from PIE root *skabh- "to prop up, support." In English, sense evolved from "place where meat is sold" to "slaughterhouse" (1540s), then figuratively "place of butchery" (1590s), and generally "confusion, mess" (1901, usually in plural).