Front | shambles |
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Pron | ['ʃæmblz] |
Back | 【shambles】 n.混乱,迷惑 He left his affairs in a complete shambles when he died. 当他死的时侯,他留下的事物呈现一片混乱。 |
Vocab | shamblesa condition of great disorder
Originally a word for a slaughterhouse, shambles now usually means "one heck of a mess," as in "You were supposed to clean your room, but it's still a shambles! When the job market is in a shambles, people have trouble finding work. When a supermarket in a shambles, there might be melons and milk spilled all over the floor. If everyone in a classroom is talking and yelling at once, the class is a shambles, because no one can hear each other or get any work done. People say things are "in shambles" or "a shambles" — they mean the same thing. However you say it, a shambles is chaotic, disorderly, out of hand, and off the hook — a major, five-alarm mess. All forms of 'shambles' will appear on average once every 4820 pages. shamble shambles shambling |
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