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）
GRE
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.
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。
- 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).
- 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》
