a situation in which there is a great lack of order or understanding 混乱局面；无序的场面；凌乱不堪；一片狼藉 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. 他把自己的职业生涯搞得一团糟。 - 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 ExamplesOur 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。
a place which is dirty or untidy 肮脏（或凌乱）的地方
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’.