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shambles n.凌乱；混乱；混乱之处 (1) 你的房间乱七八糟.(2) 会议结束时混乱不堪。(3) 卷风将这个城市变成了一片废墟。(4) 宴会之后，屋子里一片狼藉。 When the job market is in a shambles, people have trouble finding work. When a supermarket is 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.

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英 ['ʃæmblz] 美 ['ʃæmblz] (1) Your room is (in) a shambles. Tidy it up!(2) The meeting ended in a complete shambles.(3) The twister turned this city into a shambles.(4) After the party the house was a shambles. 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!

英语单词	shambles
英美音标	英 ['ʃæmblz] 美 ['ʃæmblz]
中文释义	n.凌乱；混乱；混乱之处
英语例句	(1) Your room is (in) a shambles. Tidy it up! (2) The meeting ended in a complete shambles. (3) The twister turned this city into a shambles. (4) After the party the house was a shambles.
中文例句	(1) 你的房间乱七八糟. (2) 会议结束时混乱不堪。 (3) 卷风将这个城市变成了一片废墟。 (4) 宴会之后，屋子里一片狼藉。
vocabulary简明	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!
vocabulary扩展	When the job market is in a shambles, people have trouble finding work. When a supermarket is 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.

Shambles People 英 ʃæmblz] 美 ʃæmblz N.凌乱；混乱；混乱之处 Room Tidy