Practice session over, we make our way down to the beach, finishing our journey down to the shore with a rickety ladder and rope.(练习结束,我们艰难地下到海滩,完成了利用摇晃的梯子和绳子下到海滨的旅程。)
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。)
A rickety legal system makes it hard to enforce contracts.(繁杂的法律系统很难强制执行合同。)
Yet many see little improvement in their own lives, finding themselves without a job in the same rickety shacks as before.(但是许多南非人觉得他们的生活并没有得到多大改善,他们像以前一样,没有工作,居住在破烂的窝棚内。)
Many come for the Cyclone, a rickety, wooden, 80-year-old rollercoaster, which has been likened to riding a really dangerous piece of furniture.(许多游客因“旋风过山车”而来,在这座80年之久、摇摇欲坠的木制建筑上兜风,一直被奉作一场“乘坐真正危险刺激的机动车”之旅。)
It was small, decayed, and rickety, but it was packed full of wretchedly poor families.(它很小,破旧不堪,摇摇欲坠,但里面住满了穷苦的家庭。)
Mona climbed the rickety wooden stairs.(莫娜爬上了摇摇晃晃的木楼梯。)
The front yard was an icy swamp, and a couple of warped planks, extending from the sidewalk to the door, made a sort of rickety footbridge.(前院成了一个泛着冰碴儿的烂泥塘。过道与房门之间,用几块翘曲的木板搭起了一条晃晃悠悠的栈道。)
The Jaintia hills, located in India's far North East state of Meghalaya, miners descend to great depths on slippery, rickety wooden ladders.(在这个印度遥远的东北部梅加拉亚邦(Meghalaya)的贾因蒂亚山区,矿工仅仅靠危险湿滑的木梯到达地下深处。)
In her small, rickety home town of White Castle, the tap-water often comes out “blacker than me”, she has complained.(埃尔伯塔的家乡在WhiteCastle,一个摇摇欲坠的小地方。那里的自来水总是“比我还黑”,她抱怨到。)