shambles
shambles
plural noun
[treated in sing.]
plural noun
[treated in sing.]
- (informal)a state of total disorder
(非正式)混乱，一团糟
my career was in a shambles.
我的事业一团糟。 - a butcher's slaughterhouse (archaic except in place names)
屠宰场（古词，用于地名时除外）
■a scene of carnage
大残杀场面
the room was a shambles—their throats had been cut and they lay in a waste of blood.
屋里像屠场一样——他们的喉咙被割断，躺在一片血泊中。
- 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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