hovels
n. 不適宜居住的小屋( hovel的名詞複數 )
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.
接下來的5年中,他們住在一間骯髒不堪的小破屋裡。
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,但分給我的房間簡直不是人住的地方。
The hovels which passed for dwellings are being pulled down.
過去用作住室的陋屋正在被拆除.
Djakarta was a collection of sweltering huts and hovels.
雅加達實際不過是一大堆悶熱的棚戶和茅舍.
What did the tenants expect if they could only afford to rent such wretched hovels?
他們那點錢,只能租這樣的屋子;破,危險,都活該!
" And living politely in hovels, and I doubt if I'd be received in those hovels.
" 他們規規矩矩地住在茅草棚裡,要是我去看他們,我真懷疑他們會不會接待我.
I visited the peasants in their hovels. The poverty and ignorance. Appalling!
我拜訪了許多住在茅屋裡的農人,那種窮困! 那種無知! 真令人不忍一睹!