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disrepair

/dis-ri-pair/US // ˌdɪs rɪˈpɛər //UK // (ˌdɪsrɪˈpɛə) //

失修,年久失修,破损,残缺不全

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the condition of needing repair; an impaired or neglected state.

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Examples

  • Structural racism led to numerous other obstacles like poverty and overcrowding, and the area became notorious for danger and disrepair.

  • You inherit your grandfather’s farm, which has fallen into disrepair.

  • About half of the more than 1,800 buildings and structures in the area, some of which date back a thousand years and are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have been in disrepair for years.

  • His cofounder, Joe Lonsdale, who grew up in Fremont and attended Stanford, penned a Wall Street Journal editorial explaining his 2020 move to Austin saying that California had “fallen into disrepair” due to “bad policies.”

  • Landlords were fined under nuisance ordinances for letting their buildings fall into disrepair, for harboring drug users and gang activity, and for leasing apartments to people with criminal records.

  • Years of looting for treasure and building materials, left Kayakoy in a sad state of disrepair.

  • As the Cold War died down and nuclear destruction never came to fruition, the underground complex slowly slipped into disrepair.

  • In much of the DRC, roads are in a woeful state of disrepair, and in Goma, the conditions are especially dire.

  • However, Don ends up ceding the LA office to Ted, leaving his marriage in a desperate state of disrepair.

  • With few Yankees left to vilify, Venezuela continues its slow motion spin into disrepair.

  • These huts had been built by sealing gangs many years ago and were in a sad state of disrepair.

  • The prebendal houses fell into disrepair, and in some cases a plot had been assigned, but no house had been built.

  • And yet the permanent way of almost every railway is falling into bad disrepair, the roads are shocking.

  • Sorters seize upon it and separate it and classify it according to kind and state of disrepair.

  • Unhappily the church was allowed, during the later part of the eighteenth century, to fall into a terrible state of disrepair.