Rickety
['rɪkɪtɪ] or ['rɪkəti]
解释:
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets; 'rickety limbs and joints'; 'a rachitic patient' .
弗里达编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Affected with rickets.
(a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
休伯特校对
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Affected with the rickets.[2]. Shattered, broken, weak, tottering, crazy.
整理:劳拉
例句:
- It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united strength. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- We heard a heavy tramp, tramp, tramp on the rickety stairs. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- His judgment, however, wanted surgical props; it was rickety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- It was like feeding a rickety child on chalk and water gruel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
整理:劳拉