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sham·bles AHD[shămʹbəlz] D.J.[ˈʃæmbəlz]K.K.[ˈʃæmbəlz]pl.n.(used with a sing. verb)（复数名词）（与单数动词连用）- A scene or condition of complete disorder or ruin:混乱的局面：一种完全混乱或毁坏的景象或状态："The economy was in a shambles"(W. Bruce Lincoln)“经济处于混乱状态”(W.布鲁斯·林肯)
- Great clutter or jumble; a total mess:一团糟：特别凌乱或杂乱；完全混乱：made dinner and left the kitchen a shambles.做完晚餐，厨房里变得乱七八糟
- A place or scene of bloodshed or carnage.血腥场面：流血或屠杀的场所或景象
- A scene or condition of great devastation.悲惨的情景：大毁坏的景象或状态
- A slaughterhouse.屠宰场
- Archaic A meat market or butcher shop.【古语】 肉市，屠宰店
- From Middle English shamel, shambil [place where meat is butchered and sold] 源自 中古英语 shamel, shambil [牲口被屠杀，肉被出卖的场所]
- from Old English sceamol [table] 源自 古英语 sceamol [桌子]
- from Latin scabillum, scamillum [diminutive of] scamnum [bench, stool] 源自 拉丁语 scabillum, scamillum scamnum的小后缀 [长凳，凳子]
- The original sense ofshambles to denote a meat market is by now so obscurein American usage that it must be counted the height of pedantry to insist,as a few critics continue to do,that the word should be used metaphorically only to refer to a scene of carnage.作为指肉市的单词shambles 的原始意义， 现在已很模糊，以致在美语用法中认为这个词只能隐喻地指屠杀情景，若还象一些批评家继续做的那样，准会被看作是极度迂腐的做法
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