in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" 同义词:bedraggled, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down,
not in working order; "had to push the broken-down car"; "a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on"
例句与用法
1.
I do seem to be a broken-down monarch of some kind . 我倒有点象个落魄的王孙。
2.
I do seem to be a broken-down monarch of some kind . 我倒有点儿象个落魄的王孙。
3.
I saw a team of oxen hitched to a broken-down wagon . 我看到几头牛套在一辆破车上。
4.
I do seem to be a broken-down monarch of some kind, like my old man, the princely immigrant and ineffectual bootlegger . 我倒有点儿象个落魄的王孙,象我家的老头子,一个气派十足的移民,一个经营无方的私酒商。