shambles
英 ['ʃæmb(ə)lz]
美
- n. 混亂；廢墟；屠宰場（shamble的複數）
- v. 蹣跚而行（shamble的第三人稱單數形式）
助記提示
1. Shambles Square 新夏波斯廣場: 因為以前是賣肉的地方.
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 肉鋪街: There are also streets known as "The Shambles" in other towns in the United Kingdom.
中文詞源
shambles 屠宰場，混亂，廢墟來自 shamble,肉攤，-s,複數後綴。引申詞義屠宰場，比喻義混亂，肮髒之地。其原義見英國 相關街道名，如約克郡古街 The Shambles,曼徹斯特 Shambles Square,原先都是肉市場。
英文詞源
- 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).
雙語例句
- 1. I have never seen such a shambles in my life.
- 我一輩子都沒見過這麽亂七八糟的場麵。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The ship's interior was an utter shambles.
- 船裏麵一片狼藉。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The economy is in a shambles.
- 經濟混亂無序。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. We regard the band as a thorough shambles.
- 我們認為那個樂隊一塌糊塗。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The press conference was a complete shambles.
- 記者招待會一片混亂。
來自《權威詞典》