hovel
n. 不适宜居住的小屋
A hovel is 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。
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.
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。
1. small crude shelter used as a dwelling
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。
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。
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.
She's back in the old hovel already.
她已回到原来的破屋里去了.
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.