| 单词 | ramshackle |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['ræm`ʃækl] |
| 解释 | a.摇摇欲坠的 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 破烂不堪的(almost collapsing) 【考】 ramshackle : soundness / garbled : clarity(摇摇欲坠的[东西]不 稳固/曲解的[东西]不 清晰) 【例】 a ramshackle old bus |
| 字源 | ramshackle (adj.) 1809, back-formation from ramshackled, earlier ranshackled (1670s), alteration of ransackled, past participle of ransackle (see ransack). The word seems to have been Scottish. Reading over this note to an American gentleman, he seemed to take alarm, lest the word ramshackle should be palmed on his country. I take it home willingly, as a Scotticism, and one well applied, as may be afterwards shown. [Robert Gourlay, "General Introduction to a Statistical Account of Upper Canada," London, 1822] Jamieson's "Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language" (1825) has it as a noun meaning "thoughtless, ignorant fellow." |
| 不择手段背单词 | adj. (建造和保养得很差以至于)摇摇欲坠的 【记】源于: ram羊, shackle = shake(v /n 摇动) 【类】ramshackle: soundness = garbled: clarity摇摇欲坠的不稳固 = 曲解的不清晰 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】ram 公羊 + shackle 束缚，把公羊束缚起来它会把你家撞得摇摇欲坠 【相关】shackle(音：手铐) 手铐, 脚镣, 桎梏, 束缚物 |
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