shambles

• n. 混沌；廃墟；屠殺場（shambleの複数形）
• v. つまずく（shambleの三人称単数形）

shamble、肉屋、-s、複数形の接尾辞から。slaughterhouse（屠殺場）に由来し、比喩的に「混乱と不潔の場所」を意味する。本来の意味は、ヨークシャーのThe ShamblesやマンチェスターのShambles Squareなど、もともと食肉市場だったイングランドの通りの名前に見られる。

shambles (n.)

early 15c., "meat or fish market," from schamil "table, stall for vending" (c. 1300), from Old English scamol, scomul "stool, footstool" (also figurative); "bench, table for vending," an early Proto-Germanic borrowing (Old Saxon skamel "stool," Middle Dutch schamel, Old High German scamel, German schemel, Danish skammel "footstool") from Latin scamillus "low stool, a little bench," ultimately a diminutive of scamnum "stool, bench," from PIE root *skabh- "to prop up, support." In English, sense evolved from "place where meat is sold" to "slaughterhouse" (1540s), then figuratively "place of butchery" (1590s), and generally "confusion, mess" (1901, usually in plural).

1. I have never seen such a shambles in my life.

こんなめちゃくちゃな場面は一生見たことがない。

2.The ship 's interior was an utter shambles .

船の中は散らかっている。

3.The economy is in a shambles .

経済混乱無秩序。

4.We regard the band as a thorough shambles .

私たちはそのバンドがめちゃくちゃだと思っています。

5.The press conference was a complete shambles .

記者会見は混乱した。