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hovel

英 [ˈhɒvl]

美 [ˈhʌvl]

n.  (不适于居住的)肮脏简陋的住所

复数:hovels 过去式:hovelled 

GRETEM8

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.
        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。
      • 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.
        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。

      英英释义

      noun

      双语例句

      • A hovel unblessed with electricity or running water.
        没有电和自来水的可怜小屋。
      • Satan must have occasionally crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thenardier dwelt, and have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece.
        撒旦偶然也会蹲在德纳第过活的那所破屋的某个角落里并对这个丑恶的代表人物做着好梦的。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • She's back in the old hovel already.
        她已回到原来的破屋里去了。
      • 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。
      • This was our word for a hovel, built by us of salvaged boards or crates and big enough for us to crawl into for secret conclaves.
        这样的陋室是我们用废弃的纸板或货箱搭建而成的,其大小只可供我们爬进去召开秘密会议,我们管这样的陋室叫“bunk”。
      • He dreamt an old dream of a hovel by the sea, three dogs whimpering, a woman's tears.
        他梦到一个曾经做过的梦:海边的旅馆,三只狗在呜咽,一个女人在流泪。
      • It's very uncomfortable living in a dirty hovel like ours.
        住在我们这样肮脏的破屋子里,太不舒服了。
      • 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。