英语释义

• inclined to shake as from weakness or defect;

  "a rickety table"

  "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"

  "the ladder felt a little wobbly"

  "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"

片语

shaky摇晃的；不可靠的；不坚定的

Rickety RocketRickety Rocket is an animated television series, produced by Ruby-Spears Productions, and ran from 1979 to 1980 as a segment on The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show.

Rickety Bridge南非鹊桥酒庄

Rickety Bed摇摇晃晃床

rickety dentin软牙质

rickety y要散架的

rickety chair摇椅

Rickety Tickety来呀

rickety furniture东倒西歪的家具

weak[经] 疲软的；虚弱的；无力的；不牢固的

furnituregets rickety家具松动

英汉例句

• by the launch site, hordes of shirtless and bikini-clad western tourists gyrate to deafening techno music, as others hurtle into the river from rickety wooden platforms three stories high.

  在震耳欲聋的电子音乐中，成群结队的赤膊人、穿着比基尼的西方游客摇摆着，其它人坐着摇晃木船从三层楼高的水平面沖下。

• one reason is that, beneath the average, a german jet engine is ripping away from a rickety biplane made of mediterranean olive-wood and irish linen.

  原因之一是，在平均水平线下，德国这架喷气发动机所带来的增长被地中海橄榄木和爱尔兰的亚麻布构成的摇摇晃晃的双翼飞机消磨殆尽。

• but one of the wheels on his rickety vehicle came perilously loose yesterday.

  然而，这台摇摇晃晃的车子其中一个轮子在昨天发生了危险的松动。

• he had a good idea of what to expect: a slow, rickety ride with a jumble of people crammed against one another on old, uncomfortable seats.

  他对他所期望乘坐的绿皮车有着美好的印象：在一列缓缓行驶的列车上，人员杂乱、过道拥挤，人们靠着、倚着那破旧的座位。

• the walls and floors are bare concrete, and prisoners lie on stained mattresses.personal belongings such as cups or books rest on rickety bedside tables.

  牢房的墻壁和地板上裸露着混凝土，囚犯睡在骯脏的垫子上，他们的杯子、书等私人物品就放在摇摇晃晃的床头柜上。

• their sheer dedication is underlined by the fact that, in 2005, simon broke his neck after falling from a rickety wooden bridge in the brazilian amazon.

  他们的执着可以举个事例来说明：2005年，西蒙在巴西亚马逊河从一条摇摇欲坠的木桥上跌落下来，摔坏了脖子。

• it also said that the deficit would narrow only slightly to 8.3% of gdp this year, adding to the sense that troubled euro-area countries are not doing enough to right their rickety public finances.

  这更让人感觉受困的欧元区国家没有采取足够措施来恢复其虚弱的公共财政。

• as well as providing the rickety patrol vessel and its crew, local authorities even take pride that something so rare falls within their jurisdiction.

  当地政府在提供不甚牢固的汽油船的同时，也为他们管辖范围内有这样珍稀的物种而感到自豪。

• he was also always straightening: fluffing pillows, righting picture frames, sliding back bar stools and getting down on his knees to level a rickety table.

  此外，总能发现他在整理店中的东西：弹弹枕头、扶正相框、还原酒吧凳，蹲下来弄平摇摇晃晃的桌子。

• another is the rickety state of back-office plumbing, which was neglected as the market boomed.

  另外一个是后台支持的积弱状态，这一点在市场繁荣期被忽视了。

• one by one, they enter a rickety freight elevator, manned by a kind young fellow in a dog collar; he directs them down a long, white hallway.

  他们一个接一个地进入到一个破旧不堪的货物升降机中，由一个戴着狗项圈的年轻帅哥来手动控制这台升降机。

• we're sitting in his rickety car, which he drives between the three or four families he visits every day.

  我们正坐在他摇摇摆摆的车内，车正被他开着行驶在他每天走访的三四个家庭之间。

• for years, the death toll has been mounting among somalis and ethiopians crossing the gulf of aden in rickety smugglers boats.

  这些年，在摇晃的偷渡船中横渡亚丁海湾过程中，索马里人和埃塞俄比亚人的死亡数据不断上升。

• the only piece of furniture was a rickety dressing-table with water stains, oil stains, milk stains, black, brown, and white stains, and all kinds of mixed stains.

  房间里唯一的家具是一个摇摇晃晃的梳妆台，上面满是水渍、油渍和奶渍，布满了黑色的、棕色的和白色的斑点，各种污渍混在一起。

• the front yard was an icy swamp, and a couple of warped planks, extending from the sidewalk to the door, made a sort of rickety footbridge.

  前院成了一个泛着冰碴儿的烂泥塘。 过道与房门之间，用几块翘曲的木板搭起了一条晃晃悠悠的栈道。

• the site was heavily polluted, littered, deserted, and surrounded by slums and rickety temporary structures that were torn down before the design was commissioned.

  这块地污染严重，垃圾满地，被人遗弃，四周是贫民窟和破旧的临时建筑，它们在我们的设计获準通过之前被拆除。

• the rickety state of the public finances also argues against a big fiscal fillip.

  公共财政窘迫状态也（使政府）不可能有大的财政刺激动作。

• when the average person hears the term 「asset-backed securities」 he may well think of some of the crazier structures built on the rickety base of subprime mortgages.

  当一个普通人听说「资产支持证券」这样的专业名词时，他很可能把它当作某种建立在次级债虚弱基础上的疯狂的结构产品。

• yet many see little improvement in their own lives, finding themselves without a job in the same rickety shacks as before.

  但是许多南非人觉得他们的生活并没有得到多大改善，他们像以前一样，没有工作，居住在破烂的窝棚内。

• practice session over, we make our way down to the beach, finishing our journey down to the shore with a rickety ladder and rope.

  练习结束，我们艰难地下到海滩，完成了利用摇晃的梯子和绳子下到海滨的旅程。

• you’ve written quite a bit about advanced transportation and cutting-edge transportation. do you enjoy more of the latest and greatest or are you more a connoisseur of the rickety and the old?

  你以前的书里写过不少先进的、划时代的交通工具，你觉得自己更享受哪种交通工具呢，那些最新的、最伟大的还是那些摇摇晃晃地老古董？

• several months earlier his mother had fled cuba with him for the united states in a rickety boat.

  几个月前，他的母亲带着他乘坐一条破旧的小船逃离古巴前往美国。

• perhaps the biggest challenge will be to pick apart and permanently entomb what remains within the rickety shelter.

  也许最大的困难还是去拆解并永久性埋葬摇摇欲坠的旧掩体中的那些残骸。

• near the top he stops at a collection of 10 rickety poles stuck into the soil, with corn sacks sagging between them.

  快到山顶时他停下了，面前是10根弯曲的插入土里的柱子，玉米袋挂在它们之间。

• even in defeat he may, like samson, be ready to pull down the pillars of his rickety regime on his hapless people.

  即使被打败，即使他的政权已经摇摇欲坠，他也要像大力士般地将政权的支柱一一推倒——压在不幸的人民身上。

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shaky摇晃的；不可靠的；不坚定的

unsteady使不稳定；动摇

weak[经] 疲软的；虚弱的；无力的；不牢固的

weak[经] 疲软的；虚弱的；无力的；不牢固的

frangible脆弱的；易碎的

shaky摇晃的；不可靠的；不坚定的

wobbly不稳定的；摆动的；歪斜的

unsteady使不稳定；动摇