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If a chair, table, , fence, or old hut is rickety, it is in poor shape: weak, shaky, and likely to break or fall. It wobbles when you touch it; you can almost hear the . The word is informal and a little vivid, used of things more than of people. Speakers also stretch it a little: a rickety old bike, a rickety wooden bridge, even a rickety plan, meaning the plan is poorly put together and likely to fail. It does not mean ill, and it does not mean 'having rickets', even though the two words look like a pair.
搖搖欲墜的；快散架的
組成From an old dialect word ricket, 'unstable' or 'to rattle along', plus -y. People sometimes guess it comes from the disease rickets; that is the less likely story.
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。
ricketyadj/ˈɹɪk.ɪ.ti/
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Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.
- He hesitated about climbing such a small, rickety ladder.
- She now knew every article Mrs Dibble had to sell, and the large part of the stock that was unsaleable by reason of its damaged state. Customers turned away from rickety chairs, stands of drawers that refused to open, or had no handles, lop-sided wardrobes whose doors were out of plumb or whose mirrors were cracked.
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Feeble in the joints; tottering.
- The rickety old man hardly managed to climb the stairs.
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medicinepathologysciencesAffected with or suffering from rickets; rachitic.
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。