ramshackle

adj.

1. 摇摇欲坠的；破烂不堪的
   in a very bad condition and needing repair
2. 组织松散（不能持久）的；行将瓦解的
   badly organized or designed and not likely to last very long

1. ADJ-GRADED （建筑）破烂不堪的，摇摇欲坠的
   A ramshackle building is badly made or in bad condition, and looks as if it is likely to fall down.
   1. They entered the shop, which was a curious ramshackle building.
      他们进了商店，那是幢年久失修的奇特建筑。
2. ADJ-GRADED （系统、联盟、收集物等）草率组合成的，拼凑的
   A ramshackle system, union, or collection of things has been put together without much thought and is not likely to work very well.
   1. They joined with a ramshackle alliance of other rebels.
      他们和一个由其他反叛者草草拼凑成的同盟联起手来。
   2. ...the present tax system, which the opposition says is ramshackle and complicated.
      被反对派批评为草率且复杂的现行税收体系

1. They entered the shop, which was a curious ramshackle building.
   他们进了商店，那是幢年久失修的奇特建筑。
2. They joined with a ramshackle alliance of other rebels.
   他们和一个由其他反叛者草草拼凑成的同盟联起手来。
3. The trailer features the botanist who saves the world from the zombie onslaught, as well as the man's ramshackle time machine, and Plants vs. Zombies 2 will take players through levels in past and future eras.
   本次的预告片中，新出现了一位保护世界防止僵尸攻击的植物学家，还有他那破旧不堪的时光机器。《植物大战僵尸2》的玩家可以在游戏中穿越时空。
4. He has commandeered a shed outside his parents 'ramshackle farmhouse as a personal workshop, where scrap metal litters the dirt floors.
   他强占了他父母快要倒塌的农屋外的一间小棚子作为加工车间，脏乱的地上四处丢着废金属板。
5. Showers followed me along the potted road that runs through misty gorges and ramshackle hamlets to the village in which Yang Yali was raised.
   我伴着雨水，沿着坑坑洼洼的小路，穿过烟雨蒙蒙的峡谷、破旧的村落，到达杨雅莉生长的村庄。
6. When I last visited the Pudong District of Shanghai, in the mid-1990s, it was a ramshackle area of factories and warehouses.
   我在上世纪90年代中期走访上海浦东区时，那里是一片杂乱不堪的工厂与仓库聚集地。
7. The facilities, by the standards of other British independent schools, are ramshackle.
   按照英国其它私立学校的标准衡量，其教学设施可谓破旧不堪。
8. From the start we were in a race: could we find Grivas before the Colonial Office stitched up a ramshackle deal?
   我们从一开始就处于竞赛状态：我们能在殖民部达成草率的交易之前找到格里瓦斯呢？
9. Her ramshackle house lacks electricity;
   摇摇欲坠的房子没有电；
10. There's a ramshackle old shed at the bottom of the garden.
    花园深处有间东倒西歪的旧棚子。
11. They lived in a ramshackle little house near the forest.
    他们住在离森林不远的一所小破房子里。
12. A street of bedraggled tenements; a broken-down fence; a ramshackle old pier; a tumble-down shack.
    满街破旧的房屋；破旧的篱笆；摇摇欲坠的老码头；摇摇欲坠的小木屋。
13. A ramshackle antediluvian tenement; antediluvian ideas; archaic laws.
    一间摇摇欲坠的古老的房屋；陈旧的思想；古代法律。
14. Moments later, when another ramshackle compound comes into view, he adds," and that one belongs to two ladies from Hong Kong. "
    过了一会儿，当另外一家感觉快要倒塌似的府邸，进入我们的视野时，他说道：“这是属于一对来自香港的夫妇的。”
15. Their first car was a ramshackle affair.
    他们第一辆车破烂不堪。
16. At its zenith the British Empire was almost impossibly grand in conception and yet was frequently so "improvised and provisional in character" as to appear almost ramshackle.
    在大英帝国的鼎盛时期，人们认为它宏伟壮观得几乎不可思议，但它在实际上却常常让人感觉“昙花一现、命不久长”，以至于看起来似乎即将瓦解崩塌。
17. A ramshackle cabin in the woods.
    一条小河蜿蜒地流过树林。
18. For answers to their dilemmas, many Japanese executives turn to Takahiro Fujimoto, who runs the University of Tokyo's Manufacturing Management Research Centre from a ramshackle office above a bank.
    要找到解决难题的答案，许多日本高管都会求助于藤本隆宏（TakahiroFujimoto），他一家银行楼上一间简陋的办公室，管理着东京大学（UniversityofTokyo）的制造业管理研究中心。
19. His colleagues were a ramshackle bunch.
    他的同事是一帮衰迈不堪的人。
20. On the far bank there was a ramshackle one-room brick house, where three of the farmers lived& a husband, wife and teenage son.
    在远处的河岸，有一间摇摇欲坠的砖头房子，里面有一只照明的电灯泡，那里住着三个农民&丈夫、妻子和十几岁的儿子。
21. The hpublic transport system, mostly ramshackle trains and minibus taxis, is also strained.
    主要由快要散架的火车和小公共汽车组成公交系统同样吃紧。
22. The Burrow includes a rather large, ramshackle house, a garage, a garden with a small lake, and yards surrounded by hedges.
    陋居包括一座相当大，摇摇欲坠的房子，一间车库，一座带有个小湖的花园，和被树篱围成的院子。
23. This ramshackle structure seems unlikely to solve the Iceland problem and will create many others, although it will allow supervisors to accumulate frequent flier miles at a rapid rate.
    这种粗糙的结构似乎不太可能解决冰岛问题，还将引发其它许多问题，尽管它会让监督者迅速积累飞行里程。
24. Retired doctor Hu Yuan, 80, runs one of the few remaining refuges for abandoned pets in her ramshackle home in the ancient Long Tou Jing area of Beijing.
    已退休的医生胡元，80，违背了其中的少数仅存的庇护所，为被遗弃的宠物，她摇摇欲坠的家中古代长头婧面积北京。
25. The principal remembers one mother who fell on hard times and took her children back to rural Guangxi, where the local school was a ramshackle affair with poor lighting and dirt floors.
    何少杰记得，有一位处境艰难的母亲把孩子带回了广西农村老家：那里的学校破破烂烂，照明条件很差，地面都是泥做的。
26. The financial crisis started from august 2007 in the United States, which not only make the American financial system ramshackle also let the word economy facing a huge pressure. It is still the international concerns.
    于2007年8月开始席卷美国金融市场的经济危机，不仅使该国金融体系摇摇欲坠，还让世界经济面临着巨大压力，至今仍是国际关注点。

adj

1. in deplorable condition
   1. a street of bedraggled tenements
   2. a broken-down fence
   3. a ramshackle old pier
   4. a tumble-down shack

   Synonym:    bedraggledbroken-downderelictdilapidatedtatterdemaliontumble-down