Mona climbed the rickety wooden stairs.

莫娜爬上了摇摇晃晃的木楼梯。

The chair is a bit rickety [shaky].

这椅子有点摇晃。

The rickety barn needs repairing.

摇摇欲坠的谷仓需要修理。

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。

The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

家具再简单不过了：一把很旧的椅子，一张摇摇欲坠的旧床，一张摇摇欲坠的桌子。

The bed is rickety [unstable].

这床不牢。

But bits of its approach look rickety.

但这种做法有点小不牢靠。

Rickety metal tables dotted the treed square.

佝偻的金属桌子散布在有树的广场。

But most take rickety public transport or walk.

大多数人还要靠乘坐摇摇晃晃的公交车或者步行。

Charles Prince gambles on a rickety Chinese bank.

查尔斯·普林斯把赌注押在了一家沉疴在身的中国银行之上。

The rickety bridge is one that's kind of a rope bridge.

摆桥是索桥的一种。

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。

Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridgeto get back to their camp at night.

4个人晚上要穿过一座索桥回到他们的营地。

Small farming towns like Huron, which appear rickety at the best of times, are now desperate.

像休伦这样的小型农业城镇，在经济最好的时候也岌岌可危，现在更是穷途末路了。

Several months earlier his mother had fled Cuba with him for the United States in a rickety boat.

几个月前，他的母亲带着他乘坐一条破旧的小船逃离古巴前往美国。

Other countries with rickety public finances are nevertheless splurging on science and universities.

其他公共财政摇摇欲坠的国家却持续的往科研和大学上砸钱。

We're sitting in his rickety car, which he drives between the three or four families he visits every day.

我们正坐在他摇摇摆摆的车内，车正被他开着行驶在他每天走访的三四个家庭之间。

As soon as his stop arrives, he takes off his tie and walks to his rickety second hand motorbike parked nearby.

到站之后，他立即解下领带，走到他那停在附近的，破旧的二手摩托车旁。

Price controls are unheard of and state ownership is confined to a couple of old, rickety nuclear-power plants.

价格控制前所未闻，而国家仅对几个老旧失修的核电站有产权。

Perhaps the biggest challenge will be to pick apart and permanently entomb what remains within the rickety shelter.

也许最大的困难还是去拆解并永久性埋葬摇摇欲坠的旧掩体中的那些残骸。

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White Castle，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。

Mexico's telecoms infrastructure is also rickety, in part because uncertain regulations have put off potential investors.

墨西哥电信基础设施仍然薄弱，这部分是因为变化无常的监管措施吓跑了潜在的投资者。

For years, the death toll has been mounting among Somalis and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers boats.

这些年，在摇晃的偷渡船中横渡亚丁海湾过程中，索马里人和埃塞俄比亚人的死亡数据不断上升。

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。

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。

Santikhiri has retained much of its scruffy Yunnanese-influenced charm, with its rickety wooden shops and numerous tea-houses.

讪滴吉利村又重获迷人魅力，从那褴褛破旧，摇摇欲坠的木头店铺和无数茶馆，可以看出当地深受云南民风影响。

He had a good idea of what to expect: a slow, rickety ride with a jumble of people crammed against one another on old, uncomfortable seats.

他对他所期望乘坐的绿皮车有着美好的印象：在一列缓缓行驶的列车上，人员杂乱、过道拥挤，人们靠着、倚着那破旧的座位。

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。

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。

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。