单词 | rickety |
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音标 | ['rikiti] |
解释 | a.不牢靠的,摇摇欲坠的 |
红宝书 | 【英】 adj.不牢靠的,摇摇欲 坠的(likely to break or fall apart) 【考】 cloth : ragged / furniture : rickety(破旧的衣服/破烂的 家具) 【例】 She started off down the rickety stairs.(她举步走下 摇摇欲坠的楼梯) |
字源 | rickety (adj.) "liable to fall down," 1680s, from rickets (with + -y (2)), via notion of "weak, unhealthy." Literal sense is from c.1720 but never common in English. Of material things, from 1799. |
不择手段背单词 | adj. 不牢靠的; 摇摇欲坠的 = shaky 【记】ric = mic麦克风, kety = kitty猫: 小kitty拿着大mic-摇摇欲坠的 【类】cloth: ragged = furniture: rickety破旧的衣服 = 破烂的家具 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】rick 干草,象干草般身材,rick中间是i象根草,rack中间是a象架子,rock中间是o象石头 |
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