n.(尤指用于郊区建筑的)次等(或劣质)建材
adj.(尤指房产开发)用料低劣的,廉价的;式样平庸划一的;蹩脚的
网络 廉价建材
Unlike the baby boomers, whose big fear was that "we´d all live in ticky-tacky houses, " says Howe, millennials fear that "strange people with motives we don´t understand could be lurking among us."
不像在婴儿潮出生的人,”他们最大的恐惧是住在简陋的房子里”,Howe说,“跨世纪的一代害怕的是不明动机的陌生人潜伏在我们之中。”
In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
住在用廉价材料制成的盒子里,看上去一个样子。