英汉词典

slum 基本解释

• vi. （为猎奇或救济等）去贫民窟
• n. 贫民窟；陋巷；脏乱的地方

slum 词态变化

slum 中文词源

缩写自 back slum,后街，穷人街，来自俚语 slum,房间，屋子，可能来自拟声词，模仿破屋子 嘎吱嘎吱的声音。比较 slam,slammer.

slum 英文词源

slum (n.)

1845, from back slum "dirty back alley of a city, street of poor or low people" (1825), originally a slang or cant word meaning "room," especially "back room" (1812), of unknown origin, pastime popularized by East End novels. Related: slums. Slumscape is from 1947.

slum (v.)

"visit slums of a city," especially for diversion or amusement, often under guise of philanthropy, 1884, from slum (n.). Pastime popularized by East End novels. Earlier it meant to visit slums for disreputable purposes or in search of vice (1860). Related: Slumming.

slum 英文释义

1. a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions

slum 双语例句

1. The slum is to be dynamited.

贫民窟要被炸掉了。

来自柯林斯例句

2. What a wretched existence the people in the slum lead!

这个贫民窟里的人们过着多么令人悲惨的生活啊!

来自《用法词典》

3. The policemen who patrolled the big city slum area that summer were sitting on a volcano.

那年夏天,在城市大贫民区巡逻的警察如同置身于火山口上.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. Leaving the slum behind her , she turned into a squalid alleyway.

她离开了那工人区域的草棚地带, 跑进了一个龌龊的里巷.

来自子夜部分

5. Our record of slum - clearance cast other cities in the shade.

我们清理贫民窟的政绩使其他城市黯然失色.

来自辞典例句

slum 实用场景例句

a slum area

贫民区

牛津词典

city/urban slums

城市贫民窟

牛津词典

She was brought up in the slums of Leeds.

她是在利兹的贫民区长大的。

牛津词典

There are plenty of ways you can cut costs on your trip without slumming.

在旅行中，有许多办法既可以减少开销又不至于显得寒酸。

牛津词典

Several businessmen had to slum it in economy class.

几个商人只好将就着坐在经济舱里。

牛津词典

...a slum area of St Louis.

圣路易斯的贫民区

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...inner-city slums in the old cities of the north and east.

北部和东部老城市里的市中心贫民区

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...rich kids slumming it.

体验下层社会生活的有钱人的孩子

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...aristocratic types who enjoyed slumming around in musty old Scottish castles.

喜欢在发霉的苏格兰古堡里体验苦日子的贵族阶层

柯林斯高阶英语词典

However, writer also emphasised that must keep distance to slum areas and empty buildings during night.

不过, 作者也提到,成片的贫民区和晚上人去楼空的高楼密集的街区,务必不要前往.

期刊摘选

In a slum, people live in abject poverty.

在贫民区, 人们可怜地生活在贫穷之中.

期刊摘选

The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack squatter slum.

那个农民家庭却挤在贫民窟中一个临时凑合的小棚屋里.

期刊摘选

The redevelopment of the slum area is well under way.

贫民窟的重建工作进展顺利.

期刊摘选

That officer introduced a project for slum clearance.

那位官员提出了一个大规模的清理贫民区的计划.

期刊摘选

Many coloured people live in the slum near the Main Street.

梅因街附近的贫民窟里住着许多有色人种居民.

期刊摘选

He came finally upon a miserable slum.

后来,他闯进一个穷苦的贫民窟.

辞典例句

He lived in a sordid slum.

他生活在一个污秽的贫民窟.

期刊摘选

By the hundreds, Tampa's cigar factories closed and Ybor City became a blighted slum.

随着数百家坦帕雪茄工厂的关闭,内兹伯城变成了一个破败的贫民窟.

期刊摘选

Foggartism having met with high disfavor and unpopularity, Michael became interested in slum improvement.

由于福加特主义不得民心, 迈克尔转而又对改进贫民窟问题发生兴趣.

期刊摘选

She decided to slum it for a couple of months.

她决定节衣缩食,过几个月穷日子.

期刊摘选

I am living close to what many people would a slum in Shanghai, and loving it.

我在上海的居所紧靠许多人所谓的“贫民窟”, 我喜欢那里.

期刊摘选

A man walks by a slum in continuous rain.

在绵绵雨中的索韦托,一位黑人走过贫民区的一栋住房.

期刊摘选

The slum now began to stir into life , and the factory hooter sounded its imperious summons.

草棚区域人声动了.裕华厂里的汽笛威武地嘟嘟地叫.

子夜部分

She says one slum in Nairobi , Mathari, about about 3 public primary schools nearby.

她说在马泰 内罗毕 的贫民窟附近只有3所公立学校.

期刊摘选

As they neared the slum, they felt a growing tension in the air.

靠近草棚一带, 那空气就更加紧张了.

子夜部分

These children came from a slum area.

这些孩子来自贫民窟区.

辞典例句