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。)