"a street of bedraggled tenements"
"a broken-down fence"
"a ramshackle old pier"
"a tumble-down shack"
家具再简单不过了:一把很旧的椅子,一张摇摇欲坠的旧床,一张摇摇欲坠的桌子。
As with Sisyphus, the boulder was painstakingly rolled upwards only to tumble back down again in an absurd exercise of futility.和西西弗斯一样,巨石费力地向上滚动,结果又滚了下来,徒劳无功。
Everything is loose in the house, and poor grandmother told me she was afraid that the house might tumble down.房子里所有地方都松动了,可怜的奶奶告诉我她担心房子会倒塌。