rickety
['rikiti]
adj.(连接处不牢固导致)摇晃的, 患软骨病的
例句与用法:
The ladder looks rather rickety; don't attempt to climb it unless you are sure you can do it with safety.
这梯子看起来不怎么牢固,除非能确保安全,否则你就不要去爬。
An old, rickety vehicle, especially a decrepit automobile or aircraft.
破旧汽车,破旧飞机一种用久而破烂的交通工具,尤指破坏了的汽车或飞机
词形变化:
形容词比较级: ricketier | 形容词最高级: ricketiest | 名词: ricketiness |
a.
1. 软骨病的, 患软骨病的[Z]
2. 连接处不牢固的; 摇晃的; 东倒西歪的
I was working at a rickety table.
我正在一张摇摇晃晃的桌子边工作。
rickety
形容词比较级:ricketier
形容词最高级:ricketiest
词形变化:
形容词比较级: ricketier | 形容词最高级: ricketiest | 名词: ricketiness |
词义辨析:
同义:
a.摇晃的; 虚弱的
weak
shaky
unsteady
同义参见:
wobbly
frangible
rickety['rikəti]adj.1.■佝偻病的;患佝偻病的;似佝偻病的2.■摇晃的;蹒跚的3.■易倒的;易垮的;不稳固的;不结实的变形adj.ricketierricketiest
ricketyrickety[ˈrikiti]adj.1.■佝偻病[软骨病]的; 患[似]佝偻病的2.■蹒跚的, 虚弱的
adjective
- (of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse
(建筑物,设备)摇摇晃晃的,摇摇欲坠的
we went carefully up the rickety stairs.
我们小心翼翼地走上摇摇晃晃的楼梯。
a rickety banking system.
脆弱的银行体系。 - (of a person) suffering from rickets
(人)患佝偻病的
ricketiness
noun
语源
- late 17th cent.: from rickets + -y
rickety
形容词 rickety:
inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets
同义词:rachitic
lacking physical strength or vitality
rickety
■"an old, rickety vehicle, especially a decrepit automobile or aircraft."
"一种用久而破烂的交通工具,尤指破坏了的汽车或飞机."
■13.Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridgeto get back to their camp at night.
13.4个人晚上要穿过一座索桥回到他们的营地。
■The army's denials have been undercut by photographs obtained by CNN, showing soldiers towing rickety boats full of Rohingyas out to sea and cutting them loose.
CNN获得的照片使泰国军方对于放逐难民的否认看起来好像扯谎,照片里摇摆不定的小船上挤满了罗辛亚族人,小船被军方的船用绳索拉着出海,然后士兵割断绳索,弃之大海。
■a threadbare sofa, an old armchair, and a rickety table stood grouped together in a pool of dim light cast by a candle-filled lamp hung from the ceiling.
一个旧沙发。一把旧的扶手椅。一张摇晃的餐桌立在地上。所有这些家具一起挤在昏暗的吊在天花板上的蜡烛灯光里。
■The three ships formed up, moved in close to shore, and set ablaze most of the island's rickety buildings.
三艘军舰编成队,向海岸紧逼,把岛上大部分东倒西歪的房子轰得烈火冲天。
■Don't use that old cart; it's rickety.
不要用那破马车,因为它摇摇晃晃的。
■The modern Metro does the same, arriving exactly when the overhead clock says it will, making my home system (New York) seem rickety and archaic by comparison.
与此处相比,我的家乡纽约的系统看起来是如此的摇摇欲坠和过时。
■rickety furniture
东倒西歪的家具
■Back in the early 1990s, I was proudly escorted to the happening place at the time: a poky bar in the diplomatic neighborhood, featuring plastic stools and rickety tables.
九十年代初,我被人自豪地带到那时的一个稀罕地方:使馆区的一个小酒吧,里面有塑料板凳和摇晃的桌子。
■He was scared to cross the rickety bridge.
他害怕过那座摇晃的桥。
■He dropped these on the rickety table and scurried from their presence, slamming the book-covered door behind him.
他把托盘放在那张摇摇晃晃的桌子上,立刻三步并作两步地离开了,重重地关上了那扇被书隐藏的门。
■There is the shrill squawk of children with pale faces and bony limbs, rickety little urchins marked with the forceps.
他是一个智力不健全的人,在他的圣保罗旅馆大厅里转来转去,穿的是最脏最臭的破衣服,溃疡和害虫侵蚀着他的健康。
■The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.
他的双腿走起路来摇摇晃晃的,并且重心有点偏,使他的步态微微向左形成一条直线。
■He took me up a wet and rickety stair to a great light room.
他领我登上一张湿漉漉,摇晃晃的扶梯,到了一个光线很足的房间.
■We put this rickety thing together and got it off the ground.
但欧巴马网路小组那群人是阿波罗计画。
■Rickety rosary
佝偻病性[肋骨]串珠
■Small farming towns like Huron, which appear rickety at the best of times, are now desperate.
像休伦这样的小型农业城镇,在经济最好的时候也岌岌可危,现在更是穷途末路了。
■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。
■74.South America has unshackled its trade, restructured its rickety banks and tightened its fiscal belt.
南美洲开放了贸易,整顿了自己摇摇欲坠的银行,压缩了财政开支。
■40. South America has unshackled its trade, restructured its rickety banks and tightened its fiscal belt.
南美洲开放了贸易,整顿了自己摇摇欲坠的银行,紧缩了财政开支。
■casablanca was the terminus of a long, rickety railway line
卡莎布兰卡是一长而软弱的铁路线的终点。
■Rickety pickety my red hen.
可可,我的红色母鸡。
■In early April, a square jawed reformer named Eliot Spitzer shook with Poseidon-like force at Merrill Lynch's rickety reputation for research and left it in shambles.
四月初,方下巴的改革者斯皮策,以排山倒海之势,动摇美林公司脆弱的市研声名,并使其岌岌可危。
■In a scene cut from the film, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) had to crawl along a rickety set of pipes in the spinning interior of the Trade Federation cruiser.
在一场从电影里剪掉的戏中,阿纳金-天行者(海登-克里斯腾森)必须沿旋转的贸易联盟巡洋舰中一条晃动的管道布景缓慢前行。
■Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.
在几个马戏团工作了将近七年;我想没有比这个话题更可以增添聊天的丰富度了。
■Last week, after a year of concerted international pressure, his government agreed to let a small UN contingent into Darfur to help bolster the rickety 7,000-strong African Union force there, which has sadly failed to assert itself.
在国际联合长达一年的共同压力之下,巴希尔当局于上周同意允许一小支联合国小分队入驻达尔富尔,协助支持当地七千余人组成的弱不经风的非洲联军,据说他们连自身都难保。
■Shimooka Hidetoshi and Sadaaki Kanna, two Japanese businessmen, perch on rickety stools in the sweltering open air at the Tei Mei gallery, and flick through a book of Impressionist prints.
在闷热的露天忒美(音译)画廊,2个日本商人ShimookaHidetoshi和SadaakiKanna一边坐在摇晃的凳子上休息,一边用手轻抚着一幅印象派作家作品。
■SEATED at a rickety table, saltshaker poised above a bowl of delicate chicken-and-ginseng soup, the young Taiwanese woman considered a question: why not use soy sauce?
坐在一张摇摇欲坠的桌子后面,桌上摆着一碗人参鸡汤,盐瓶放在一旁,这个年轻的台湾女人正在想一个问题:为什么不用酱油呢?
■The wind, boisterous everywhere, was even shriller and more pitiless in the neighbourhood of that bleak hill-top upon which the Castle Inn reared its rickety walls.
城堡旅馆在荒凉的小山顶上垒起它那歪歪斜斜的墙头;到处喧闹的风,在它邻近一带就格外尖锐刺耳、冷酷无情了。
■For years, the death toll has been mounting among Somalis and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers boats.
多年来,来自索马里和埃塞俄比亚的乘坐不稳定的走私船横跨A海湾的的死亡人数一只在攀升。
■For years, the death toll has been mounting among Somalis and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers' boats.
多年来,索马里和埃塞俄比亚乘摇摆的走私船横渡亚丁海湾的死亡人数不断增长。
■She snatched the candle which Phoebe had lighted, from the girl's hand;and ran up the rickety, winding staircase which led to the narrow corridor upon the upper floor.
她从菲比手里抓起她已经点亮的蜡烛:走上那摇摇晃晃的曲曲弯弯的楼梯,楼梯通向二层楼的狭窄走廊。
■She sat down in a rather gingerly fashion on the rickety old chair.
她以极为小心翼翼的样子做在那摇摇晃晃的旧椅子上。
■Rickety mother always held on to me, happy with both feet on the ground step by step forward to tap.
妈妈总是扶着摇摇晃晃的我,欢快地用双脚一步一步地在地上踢踏着。
■The rich-world coalition is getting rickety too.
富国的联合也变得不那么稳固了。
■He accomplished the Building of the Bookcase although the result was a rather rickety affair
尽管造出的书橱摇摇晃晃的,但他还是完成了。
■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。
■When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, wives automatically assume that their husbands will somehow put things right.
当电灯保险丝烧断、家具变得摇摇晃晃、水管变得堵塞时,妻子们便会自然而然地认为丈夫总会设法修好的。
■When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, wives automatically assume that their husbands will somehow put things right
当电灯保险丝烧断、家具变得摇摇晃晃、水管变得堵塞时,妻子们便会自然而然地认为丈夫总会设法修好的。
■a rickety stool, table, bed, etc
快要散架的凳子、 桌子、 床等
■As I can't afford to live in a grand house, he comes and stays in these rickety old chambers with me.
我住不起高楼大厦,他就跑来跟我作伴,住在这种摇摇欲坠的破房子里。
■I'd rather Bonnie was invited to eat dry bread in the Picards' miserable house or Mrs. Elsing's rickety barn than to be the belle of a Republican inaugural ball.
我宁肯让邦妮被邀请到皮卡德的破房子里呀埃尔辛太太家里那摇摇晃晃的仓房里去啃干面包,也不让她去当共和党人就职舞会上的明星。
■I laughed at the rickety ladder propped up between the two.
我对放在这两层之间摇摆着的梯子一笑了之。
■Typically, I enter their world by climbing up a rickety, twisting wooden staircase, ducking to avoid bumping my head in the near-total darkness.
我常常在一片漆黑中沿着摇晃曲折的木制楼梯往上走,还要低着头以免撞到什么东西,最后才进入他们的世界。
■"I think it will hold me" is your first indication that crossing that rickety bridge on your hiking trip in the middle of nowhere is not a good idea.
我想它能承受得住我“是你在荒郊野外徒步旅行中穿过那座摇摆的桥表明那并不是一个好主意的第一征兆。
■One thing I learned way back in grad school was that there was a big difference between the assets of first-world, mature-country central banks and those in rickety developing economies.
我曾经在学校学过,第一世界发达国家央行的资产与那些风雨飘摇的发展中国家央行资产有着非常大的区别。
■I was working at a rickety table.
我正在一张摇摇晃晃的桌子边工作。
■I saw him padlock the rickety door behind us.
我见他在我们背后把摇摇晃晃的门锁上了。
■' I went down to a rickety old wooden pier, meaning to wait there till it was dark, and then drop quietly over the end of it into the water;
我走到一个摇摇晃晃的陈旧的木头码头上,打算在那儿等到天黑,便悄悄地从码头的尽头掉到水里;
■There was a sudden clatter as Little San-tse kicked a rickety stool out of the way and grunted savagely.
拍达!小三子踢开一只破凳,恨恨地哼一声。