ramshackle

AFRICA's ramshackle cities are wearing crowns of gleaming skyscrapers.(非洲许多城市的摩天大厦让这些破旧的城市戴上了闪闪发光的皇冠。)

When rain is not flooding the ramshackle tents and tarps, the summer sun turns them into hothouses.(当雨水还没淹没掉摇摇欲坠的帐篷和油布时，夏日的骄阳先把它们变成了暖房。)

The rendezvous is set for a ramshackle building beside a potholed road on the outskirts of Blagoveschensk.(见面地点约在了Blagoveschensk郊外一条崎岖不平的路旁一处摇摇欲坠的建筑物里。)

Many houses, though ramshackle, still stand.(许多房子尽管千疮百孔却依然挺立。)

He had run a ramshackle ship-chandlers establishment at Cyclops Wharf on the West Ferry Road.(他曾在西轮渡道的独眼巨人码头经营一家摇摇欲坠的船吊灯店。)

Relatives ferried Mr. Yang to the Hepu County Psychiatric Hospital, a sprawling, ramshackle collection of one-story buildings outside Beihai, the closest city.(亲戚们用船把他送到合浦县精神病院。这是座毫无规划，摇摇欲坠的一层楼的建筑群，位于离村子最近的北海市郊区。)

Finally a small cluster of ramshackle tin-roofed houses came into sight.(终于看见几间破烂不堪，用铁皮做屋顶的屋子。)

Their first car was a ramshackle affair.(他们第一辆车破烂不堪。)

Many more, though, have been converted over the years into a ramshackle collection of cramped, one-storey homes, accessed via the narrowest of winding pathways.(然而，经过岁月的洗礼，这些局促而低矮的平房大都变得摇摇欲坠，要穿过一些狭窄到只有风能通过的路才能到达。)

As the marriage breaks down, Gary's ramshackle building begins also to disintegrate.(正如婚姻的破裂，加里摇摇欲坠的小屋也开始瓦解。)