hovels
n. 不适宜居住的小屋( hovel的名词复数 )
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。
The hovels which passed for dwellings are being pulled down.
过去用作住室的陋屋正在被拆除.
Djakarta was a collection of sweltering huts and hovels.
雅加达实际不过是一大堆闷热的棚户和茅舍.
What did the tenants expect if they could only afford to rent such wretched hovels?
他们那点钱,只能租这样的屋子;破,危险,都活该!
" And living politely in hovels, and I doubt if I'd be received in those hovels.
" 他们规规矩矩地住在茅草棚里,要是我去看他们,我真怀疑他们会不会接待我.
I visited the peasants in their hovels. The poverty and ignorance. Appalling!
我拜访了许多住在茅屋里的农人,那种穷困! 那种无知! 真令人不忍一睹!