| 单词 | shambles |
| 释义 | shambles (once / 4821 pages) n Originally a word for a slaughterhouse, shambles now usually means "one heck of a mess," as in "You were supposed to clean your room, but it's still a shambles! When the job market is in a shambles, people have trouble finding work. When a supermarket is in a shambles, there might be melons and milk spilled all over the floor. If everyone in a classroom is talking and yelling at once, the class is a shambles, because no one can hear each other or get any work done. People say things are "in shambles" or "a shambles" — they mean the same thing. However you say it, a shambles is chaotic, disorderly, out of hand, and off the hook — a major, five-alarm mess. WORD FAMILYshamble: shambled, shambles, shambling+/shambling: shamblings USAGE EXAMPLESWhen no new bolivar notes appeared to replace the old ones, riots and looting erupted in towns across Venezuela, whose economy was already in shambles. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) The Georgetown Republican’s bill also would create a trusteeship to oversee ailing hospitals left in shambles by exploitative owners. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) And the Packers’ defense appears to be in shambles. Seattle Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1n a condition of great disorder Hyper disorder, disorderliness a condition in which things are not in their expected places 2n a building where animals are butchered Syn|Hyper abattoir, butchery, slaughterhouse building, edifice a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place |
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