(of buildings, vehicles, furniture, etc. 建築物、車輛、家具等 in a very bad condition and needing repair 搖搖欲墜的；破爛不堪的 a ramshackle house 東倒西歪的房子
(of an organization or a system 組織或體制 badly organized or designed and not likely to last very long 組織鬆散（而不能持久）的；行將瓦解的 The opposition criticized the government’s ramshackle economic policies. 反對派批評了政府搖搖欲墜的經濟政策。
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally dialect in the sense ‘irregular, disorderly’): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled ‘ransacked’.