sham·bles
noun/ˈʃæmblz/
/ˈʃæmblz/
[singular] (informal)- a situation in which there is a great lack of order or understanding
混乱；无序；凌乱 - The press conference was a complete shambles.
记者招待会一片混乱。 - What a shambles!
好乱哪！ - He’s made an absolute shambles of his career.
他的职业生涯绝对是一团糟。 - in a shambles The government is in a shambles over Europe.
政府在欧洲问题上政策十分混乱。
Extra Examples- Our defending was a complete shambles.
我们的防守完全是一团糟。 - The economy was in a shambles last year.
去年的经济一片混乱。
- The press conference was a complete shambles.
- a place which is dirty or untidy
肮脏（或凌乱）的地方 - The house was a shambles.
那房子凌乱不堪。
- The house was a shambles.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘meat market’): plural of earlier shamble ‘stool, stall’, of West Germanic origin, from Latin scamellum, diminutive of scamnum ‘bench’.