AFRICA's ramshackle cities are wearing crowns of gleaming skyscrapers.(非洲許多城市的摩天大廈讓這些破舊的城市戴上了閃閃發(fā)光的皇冠。)

When rain is not flooding the ramshackle tents and tarps, the summer sun turns them into hothouses.(當(dāng)雨水還沒淹沒掉搖搖欲墜的帳篷和油布時，夏日的驕陽先把它們變成了暖房。)

The rendezvous is set for a ramshackle building beside a potholed road on the outskirts of Blagoveschensk.(見面地點約在了Blagoveschensk郊外一條崎嶇不平的路旁一處搖搖欲墜的建筑物里。)

Many houses, though ramshackle, still stand.(許多房子盡管千瘡百孔卻依然挺立。)

He had run a ramshackle ship-chandlers establishment at Cyclops Wharf on the West Ferry Road.(他曾在西輪渡道的獨(dú)眼巨人碼頭經(jīng)營一家搖搖欲墜的船吊燈店。)

Relatives ferried Mr. Yang to the Hepu County Psychiatric Hospital, a sprawling, ramshackle collection of one-story buildings outside Beihai, the closest city.(親戚們用船把他送到合浦縣精神病院。這是座毫無規(guī)劃，搖搖欲墜的一層樓的建筑群，位于離村子最近的北海市郊區(qū)。)

Finally a small cluster of ramshackle tin-roofed houses came into sight.(終于看見幾間破爛不堪，用鐵皮做屋頂?shù)奈葑印?

Their first car was a ramshackle affair.(他們第一輛車破爛不堪。)

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，經(jīng)過歲月的洗禮，這些局促而低矮的平房大都變得搖搖欲墜，要穿過一些狹窄到只有風(fēng)能通過的路才能到達(dá)。)

As the marriage breaks down, Gary's ramshackle building begins also to disintegrate.(正如婚姻的破裂，加里搖搖欲墜的小屋也開始瓦解。)