shambles
/ˈʃæmblz/plural noun
treated in sing.
1
- informal a state of total disorder〈非正式〉混乱, 一团糟：
my career was in a shambles.
我的事业一团糟。
2
- a butcher's slaughterhouse (archaic except in place names)屠宰场（古词, 用于地名时除外）。
2.1
- a scene of carnage大屠杀场所：
the room was a shambles - their throats had been cut and they lay in a waste of blood.
这个房间曾经是一个大屠杀的场所——他们的喉咙被割断, 躺在一片血泊中。
词源
late Middle English （in the sense 'meat market'）：plural of earlier shamble 'stool, stall', of West Germanic origin, from Latin scamellum, diminutive of scamnum 'bench'.