Dickensian

adj.

1. 狄更斯文体的；具有狄更斯小说特点的；类似狄更斯笔下描述的
   connected with or typical of the novels of Charles Dickens, which often describe social problems and bad social conditions
   1. a Dickensian slum
      类似狄更斯笔下的贫民窟

1. Most had been bought on the cheap with borrowed money and turned around with Dickensian cost controls, strident promotion, bingolike contests, and the tabloid formula.
   大部分都是通过借贷，以低廉的价格购入，而后通过狄更斯式的成本控制、铺天盖地的宣传、博彩式的有奖竞猜和小报式的风格，最终都扭亏为盈。
2. But it was also a century of Dickensian depredation and dislocation.
   但那也是一个狄更斯式（Dickensian）掠夺和混乱主导的世纪。
3. Peasants leave their homes and head to the cities, where they work in Dickensian factories for low wages.
   农民离开家走进城市，为了微薄的工资在又苦又累的工厂工作。
4. Village life is portrayed as sequestered in a bygone age, with farmers trailing water buffalo through postage-stamp paddies and rural labourers trudging home in the twilight from Dickensian factories.
   在过去的年代，乡村生活被描述成世外桃源式的生活，农民牵着水牛穿过一块块稻田，黄昏下，乡村工人从狄更斯式的工厂里蹒跚地走回家。
5. Her latest novel is very dickensian, and is full of Dickensian characters.
   她最近的小说文体很像狄更斯的风格，还充满类似狄更斯笔下的人物。
6. To exploit this demand, pawnbrokers are shedding their dingy, Dickensian image.
   为了开拓市场，典当商人正在试图摆脱他们过去阴暗的狄更斯时代的形象。
7. The lyrics is a collision of the Dickensian and the modern, in which pastoral idyll collides against urban sprawl.
   歌词则是狄更斯风格和现代风格的碰撞，充满牧歌般的田园与杂乱无章的城市之间的冲突。
8. Within a decade, its rapidly aging population will suffer a severe labor shortage, and China will have millions of elderly people with few kids, and a Dickensian social system, to care for them.
   在十年内，它迅速老化的人口将面临严重的劳动力短缺，而且中国将有大量老人，却没有多少孩子照顾他们，一个狄更斯式的社会体系。
9. Last month the tightly controlled state media reported that hundreds of children and adults had been abducted and were working as slaves in Dickensian brick factories and mines across central provinces.
   上月，受到严格管制的中国官方媒体报道称，数百名儿童和成人被拐骗到一些中部省份的砖窑和煤矿，充当奴工。
10. Worker activists have welcomed the law for beginning to address a Dickensian imbalance in employer-employee relations belying the official push to build a more "harmonious" society.
    工人维权人士对新法律的施行表示欢迎，因为它意味着社会开始应对狄更斯时代般的劳资关系失衡，这种失衡与官方推动建设更“和谐”社会不符。
11. The bathrooms in this hotel are positively dickensian& no hot water and grime everywhere.
    这个旅店的浴室肯定属于狄更斯笔下的那种&没有热水，到处是污垢。
12. Living conditions can be Dickensian, and grueling six-day work weeks leave little time for anything else but sleeping, eating and doing the laundry.
    生活处境如同狄更斯笔下描述般悲惨，让人精疲力竭的6天工作之后，所剩无几的时间只够用来睡觉，吃饭和洗衣服。
13. This is why David Copperfield becomes the most popular novel among 20th century Dickensian readers.
    这些使得《大卫·科波菲尔》在ZO世纪成为狄更斯小说中最受欢迎的一部。