ramshackle
adjective /ˈræmʃækl/
/ˈræmʃækl/
- (of buildings, vehicles, furniture, etc.
建筑物、车辆、家具等 摇摇欲坠的；破烂不堪的 - a ramshackle house
东倒西歪的房子
- a ramshackle house
- (of an organization or a system
组织或体制 组织松散（而不能持久）的；行将瓦解的 - The opposition criticized the government’s ramshackle economic policies.
反对派批评了政府摇摇欲坠的经济政策。
- The opposition criticized the government’s ramshackle economic policies.
词源early 19th cent. (originally dialect in the sense ‘irregular, disorderly’): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled ‘ransacked’.