词汇 | 年久失修 |
释义 | 年久失修 Small underground mines, many of them old, saw23 of the35 deaths from accidents in2009, although they account for only a fifth of the industry's workforce. A large part of the road and rail infrastructure inherited by newly independent African countries about50 years ago has fallen into disrepair. But if that's the case for lots of people, then there will be fewer and fewer shared options available, and the ones that are available will be older clunkers. The city's three biggest mosques, long fallen into disrepair, have been renovated. But the country's battered roads and red tape will turn the trip into an Indian infrastructure odyssey that will take nearly24 hours with barely a break. But preservationists still hope to revive the turn- of- the- century gingerbread houses in the capital of Port- au-Prince, which have fallen into disrepair. But many of them are in disrepair and the state company in charge of them, Infraero, has been poorly run. Piles of clothes, ceramic statues and all kinds of wall clocks in disrepair take up most of the living room. Its airport is cramped and dirty, too small for the volume it tries to handle and in a state of disrepair. While Iran is one of the world's biggest oil producers its refineries are dilapidated and it suffers from runaway petrol demand because of generous subsidies. The old hotel, which is unfortunately in a state of total disrepair, must be torn down in order to renovate the site. But the agricultural extension system is now in some disrepair. They once claimed that part of the facade of Buckingham Palace was in such bad repair that a chunk fell off, narrowly missing Princess Anne. We will put more Americans to work repairing crumbling roads and bridges. We explored the house more completely, now being VERY careful since we knew just how bad off the place really was. In Adaboya, Ghana, “ children must walk four kilometers to attend school because, while there is a school building in the village, it sits in disrepair and cannot be used in the rainy season.” In traveling the highways around Los Angeles to get to the airport, you are struck by the state of disrepair there, too. Its concrete tower blocks were crumbling, the peasant housing like slums, and the infrastructure chronically rundown. What governs history is human nature, which is a in a state of shocking disrepair and b absolutely unalterable. After falling into disrepair it had been recently restored, but designers thought it would be inappropriate to go against the original design and build bridges over the moats. She is at her house in a run-down gated community in the suburbs of Guatemala City. |
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