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If a place is shipshape, it is neat and clean, and everything is in its right place — ready, not only pretty. The word comes from life on a ship: sailors had to keep their small space tidy and tied down, or rough water would throw things about. People now use it on land for a kitchen, a desk, a bag, or a whole house. It feels friendly and a little old, like something a or a navy person might say, not like a school word. You can also say they left the room shipshape, using it to tell how the leaving was done.
整齊妥當、井然有序
原始詞典資料2 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。
shipshapeadj/ˈʃɪpʃeɪp/
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Meticulously neat and tidy.
- SHIP-shape, in a seaman-like manner; as "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c.
- [I]t would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope, or a running bow-line, below me, than to seize an old sea-man by his head-lanyard; [...]
shipshapeadv/ˈʃɪpʃeɪp/
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Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent.
- No—sir—if I sink, I sink; but d——e, I'll go down ship-shape and with dignity.
- I have said a good deal about Bertha, because I like her frank, easy way, her desire to please, and her pleasant natural manner of doing it. I do n't think novel-writers and picture-makers say enough about such girls. [...] Those are the girls, Ma'am, whom I want to see described by people who know how to do this sort of thing up shipshape.
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。