shambles

noun

/ˈʃæmblz/

[singular] (informal)

a situation in which there is a great lack of order or understanding混乱局面；无序的场面；凌乱不堪；一片狼藉 synonym mess
- The press conference was a complete shambles.记者招待会一片混乱。
- What a shambles!好乱哪！
- He’s made an absolute shambles of his career.他把自己的职业生涯搞得一团糟。
- in a shambles The government is in a shambles over Europe.政府在欧洲问题上政策十分混乱。
- Our defending was a complete shambles.我们的防守完全是一团糟。
- The economy was in a shambles last year.去年的经济一片混乱。
a place which is dirty or untidy肮脏（或凌乱）的地方 synonym mess
- The house was a shambles.那房子凌乱不堪。

词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘meat market’): plural of earlier shamble ‘stool, stall’, of West Germanic origin, from Latin scamellum, diminutive of scamnum ‘bench’.

词汇	shambles
释义	shambles noun /ˈʃæmblz/ /ˈʃæmblz/ [singular] (informal) a situation in which there is a great lack of order or understanding混乱局面；无序的场面；凌乱不堪；一片狼藉 synonym mess The press conference was a complete shambles.记者招待会一片混乱。 What a shambles!好乱哪！ He’s made an absolute shambles of his career.他把自己的职业生涯搞得一团糟。 in a shambles The government is in a shambles over Europe.政府在欧洲问题上政策十分混乱。 Our defending was a complete shambles.我们的防守完全是一团糟。 The economy was in a shambles last year.去年的经济一片混乱。 a place which is dirty or untidy肮脏（或凌乱）的地方 synonym mess The house was a shambles.那房子凌乱不堪。词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘meat market’): plural of earlier shamble ‘stool, stall’, of West Germanic origin, from Latin scamellum, diminutive of scamnum ‘bench’.
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