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If a building or a vehicle is ramshackle, it is in bad condition and looks as if it might fall apart. The roof may sag, a door may not shut, bits may have been tied on with wire. The word is colourful and not very formal; it paints a picture more than it gives a builder's report. You can also hear it of a system or a plan that has been thrown together and barely holds — though the home meaning is still a house, a barn, a bus, an old bike. You would not usually call a person ramshackle.
破舊失修的、搖搖欲墜的
組成First recorded in 1830 as a back-formation from ramshackled, from ransackled, the old past form of ransackle (to ransack), a repeated, busy form of Middle English ransaken (to pillage).
同家族的字
- ransackramshackle grew out of an older form of ransack: to search a place roughly and leave it a mess
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ramshackleadj/ˈɹæmˌʃæk.əl/
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In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
- They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.
- Steady old Curés come jolting past, now and then, in such ramshackle, rusty, musty, clattering coaches as no Englishman would believe in;[…]
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Badly or carelessly organized.
- So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times.
- The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.
ramshackleverb/ˈɹæmˌʃæk.əl/
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obsoleteTo ransack.
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。