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If a building, a car, a fence, or a house is dilapidated, it is old and in very bad condition — peeling, leaking, bits falling off, as if nobody has looked after it for a long time. You use it of things, not of people: a person may be run-down or in poor health, but we do not usually call a person dilapidated. It is stronger and a little more literary than just old. A house can be old and still loved and sound; a dilapidated house looks close to ruin. You can stretch it to a dilapidated chair or bicycle, still meaning falling apart from age and neglect.
破舊不堪的；殘破的
組成From Latin dilapidare, literally to scatter stones (dis- “apart” + lapis “stone”), later “to pull down, to let fall to ruin.”
同家族的字
- dilapidationthe noun: the falling-apart state
- dilapidatethe older verb: to let something fall to ruin
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dilapidatedadj/dɪˈlæpɪdeɪtəd/
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Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect.
- Their stately offices—their pleasant gardens—the magnificent cloisters constructed for their recreation, were all dilapidated and ruinous; […]
- It was a strange scene, the contrasts which met in that large but dilapidated chamber. It had been the banqueting-hall in the ancient palace of the La Franchi, but the revelry and the splendour had long since passed away.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。