rickety

adj.

连接处不牢固的，快要散架的；

1. The ladder looks rather rickety.
   这梯子看起来不怎么牢固。
2. I was working at a rickety table.
   我正在一张摇摇晃晃的桌子边工作。

Raging growth and rickety bourses
On the Skeleton of a Rickety Dwarf
Rickety Bridges: Using the Media in Deliberative Democracy
Rickety numbers: Volatility of university rankings and policy implications
Jefferson's Rickety Wall: Sacred and Secular in American Politics
[The spontaneous otitis media in rickety rats]
Translating the humorous style of Bill Bryson: a rickety, confidence-sapping Enterprise
[Comparative histologic and morphometric studies of rickety bone disorders (author's transl)]
A Lively Mind in a Frozen Body: The History of Rickety Kate—an Australian Poet Who Suffered From Rheumatoid Arthritis
Frailty in left ventricular assist device destination therapy: Putting a new motor in a rickety old car running out of gas?