hovel
英 [ˈhɒvl]
美 [ˈhʌvl]
n. (不适于居住的)肮脏简陋的住所
BNC.21716 / COCA.23775
牛津词典
noun
- (不适于居住的)肮脏简陋的住所
a house or room that is not fit to live in because it is dirty or in very bad condition
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (尤指破败不堪的)小屋,茅舍
Ahovelis a small hut, especially one which is dirty or needs a lot of repair.- 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。
- They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
- N-COUNT 肮脏简陋的住处
You describe a house, room, or flat as ahovelto express your disapproval or dislike of it because it is dirty, untidy, and in poor condition.- 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。
- I went for a living-in job, but the room I was given was a hovel.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com ist to me.
你埃塞俄比亚人,从你的茅屋的门里走出,向我走近。 - She's back in the old hovel already.
她已回到原来的破屋里去了。 - "Well," said she," they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there isn't a sou."
“好吧,”她说,“这是些很穷的人,是个没有钱的破棚棚。” - I don't know how you can bear to live in this hovel.
我不知道你怎能忍受住在这狗窝里。 - Wireless sensor networks are a hovel technology about acquiring and processing information.
无线传感网络是一门获取和处理信息的新兴技术。 - He had a son, Loush, and lived in this hovel in the bank besides the road.
他有一个儿子,Luosh,生活在路边的小河边简陋的草棚里。 - The quality of the blessing was strange and healing; the solitary man walking along that road, and the hovel by the wayside, were bathed in it.
祝福的品质神奇而具有疗效;沿着大路散步的孤独的人和路边的小屋全都沐浴在其中。 - One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the uninhabited compartments of the hovel.
有一天早晨,这个蓄意窥探的老婆子看见冉阿让走进这座破屋的一间没有人住的房里去了,觉得他的神气有些特别。 - He had led her to the rendezvous in a hovel on the city's outskirts, leaving Onn just at dusk.
他俩在薄暮时分离开安城,他领着她来到郊外一间约定好的小茅舍。 - There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
穷窟里已没有面包,却还有烟。