hovels

英 [ˈhɒvəlz] 美 [ˈhʌvəlz]

n.  (不适于居住的)肮脏简陋的住所
hovel的复数

柯林斯词典

  1. N-COUNT （尤指破败不堪的）小屋，茅舍
    A hovel is a small hut, especially one which is dirty or needs a lot of repair.
    1. They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
      接下来的5年中，他们住在一间肮脏不堪的小破屋里。
  2. N-COUNT 肮脏简陋的住处
    You describe a house, room, or flat as a hovel to express your disapproval or dislike of it because it is dirty, untidy, and in poor condition.
    1. I went for a living-in job, but the room I was given was a hovel.
      我找了份提供住所的工作，但分给我的房间简直不是人住的地方。
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双语例句

  1. And these are not derelict hovels in crime-ridden communities: These homes are often in move-in condition and located in nice neighborhoods.
    而且这些地区并非那种犯罪肆虐的社区：这些待售房屋都是搬进来就可以住的条件很好的居民区。
  2. The persons who, like ourselves, never cross the Place de Gr è ve without casting a glance of pity and sympathy on that poor turret strangled between two hovels of the time of Louis XV.
    从格雷沃广场走过的人们，和我们自己一样，都不会不朝这座塔楼投去怜悯和同情的眼光，它夹在两座路易十五时期的破屋中间。
  3. And sometimes he walked as far as the town of corleone, its eighteen thousand people strung out in dwellings that pitted the side of the nearest mountain, the mean hovels built out of black rock quarried from that mountain.
    有时候，他一直走到考利昂镇，一万八千居民住在一长条街上，住房延伸到了最靠近的山坡上；简陋的茅棚是用黑石头砌成的。
  4. Cities have ethnic hovels of Chinese called Chinatowns.
    城市里边华裔的茅舍群被叫做中国城。
  5. More ruins lay beyond it& an old well, and some circles in the grass that marked the sites where hovels had once stood.
    而在石墙前面，更多的废墟映入眼帘&一口古老的井，还有一圈圈小茅屋压出的草印，虽然它们已不复存在。
  6. Eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but two openings, the door and one window;
    一百八十一万七千所有两个洞口，就是门和窗；
  7. Unless I leave home early, I can't get a full 18 holes in. eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but two openings, the door and one window;
    除非我早点出门，否则我打不完十八个洞。一百八十一万七千所有两个洞口，就是门和窗；
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