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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

      • "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。”
      • 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。
      • There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
        穷窟里已没有面包,却还有烟。
      • 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”。
      • 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。
      • Therefore I arose from my bed in this hovel and went forth to the beach to refresh myself with looking upon the water and the moon and breathing the cool air.
        所以我就在这小屋里起了床,走出家门,到海滩上去,看看海水和月亮,呼吸呼吸凉快的空气,给自己提神醒脑。
      • 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。
      • A hovel unblessed with electricity or running water.
        没有电和自来水的可怜小屋。
      • It did not even occur to him to tell her about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thenardier, about the burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father.
        他甚至没有想到要把那天夜晚在德纳第穷窟里发生的事,他父亲怎样烧伤自己的胳膊,他那奇怪的态度,机灵的脱险等等经过说给她听。
      • 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。