slum
美 [sl?m]
英 [sl?m] 
- n.貧民窟;棚屋區(qū)
- v.過簡樸生活
- 網(wǎng)絡(luò)貧民區(qū);陋巷;潤滑油渣
詞形變化
復(fù)數(shù):slums 過去式:slummed 現(xiàn)在分詞:slumming 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 貧民窟;棚屋區(qū)an area of a city that is very poor and where the houses are dirty and in bad condition |
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| She was brought up in the slums of Leeds. 她是在利茲的貧民區(qū)長大的。 |
1. | [i]
(短期)去貧窮地方體驗(yàn)生活,過簡樸生活to spend time in places or conditions that are much worse than those you are used to |
| There are plenty of ways you can cut costs on your trip without slumming. 在旅行中,有許多辦法既可以減少開銷又不至于讓自己過得太苦。 |
習(xí)慣用語
slum it
將就著過簡樸生活;過窮日子to accept conditions that are worse than those you are used to
| Several businessmen had to slum it in economy class. 幾個(gè)商人只好將就著坐在經(jīng)濟(jì)艙里。 |
英漢解釋
n. | |
v. | 1. 到貧民區(qū)去[觀光,游玩等];在貧民區(qū)發(fā)展保險(xiǎn)業(yè)務(wù)[從事慈善事業(yè)] |
英英解釋
例句
The slum in early spring nighttime, the sky is a balloon, a few slogans on the wall, an one female of male is turning on a light.
早春夜間的貧民窟,天上是一顆氣球,墻上是幾條標(biāo)語,一男一女正在開燈。
The narrowness of the way into the slum made it hard for the fire brigade to douse the flames, not that Nairobi has much of a fire brigade.
并非內(nèi)羅畢投入的消防車太少,而是通往貧民窟的道路過于狹窄使得消防車難以到達(dá)現(xiàn)場滅火。
The businessmen who pour in on the thrice-weekly jumbo jet from Johannesburg drive out of the airport car park straight into a slum.
來自約翰內(nèi)斯堡的商人乘坐一周三班的大型噴氣式飛機(jī)涌入羅安達(dá),駕車離開機(jī)場就進(jìn)入貧民區(qū)。
What good can it do, sceptics ask, to parachute a slum kid into a glamorous world of air travel and swish hotels, just for a week?
這樣的比賽又能起到什么作用呢?只是讓這些乞丐,無家可歸的人體驗(yàn)一次飛機(jī),住一周賓館?一些質(zhì)疑者這樣講。
The obvious assumption was that this was some kind of subterranean slum.
可以明顯的假設(shè),此處極像一個(gè)地下貧民窟。
It turned out to be a wave of slum dwellers streaming to the air and sea port to greet the American guests.
那時(shí),海地人從貧民窟中爭相涌向機(jī)場和港口,歡迎美國來的客人。
In one shack, deep inside the labyrinthine slum, her team found a weeping child whose parents had left her at home alone while they worked.
在迷宮似的貧民區(qū)深處一個(gè)簡陋小屋里,她的小組發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個(gè)哭泣的孩子,她的父母出去工作時(shí)把她獨(dú)自留在家里。
But, she added, even after she had a classroom, she had no idea what might come of her effort to teach kids from the slum.
但她補(bǔ)充說,即使她有了教室后,她并不知道她對貧民窟的孩子施教會得出什么樣的結(jié)果。
He suggested that I wrote an article on Chicago's vilest slum, and this was as good as meat and drink for me.
他建議我寫一篇關(guān)于芝加哥最下層的貧民窟的文章,而這正是我最愛寫的。
It must have been a shock for the newcomers; this time around, Chid and Adam had hired the entire group from the slum of West Point.
對于新手來說,一切都是那么震撼人心。這次,奇德和亞當(dāng)直接雇用了WestPoint貧民窟的一整個(gè)婦女團(tuán)體。
My mother, the former Angela Sheehan, grew up in a Limerick slum with her mother, two brothers, Thomas and Patrick, and a sister, Agnes.
我媽媽婚前的名字叫安吉拉.什罕,她在利默里克一個(gè)貧民窟里長大,和她媽媽、兩個(gè)兄弟---托馬斯和帕特里克---以及一個(gè)妹妹艾格尼斯住在一起。
He lived in a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and was nursed by his mother.
他住在肯尼亞首都內(nèi)羅畢的貧民窟里,并由母親照顧。
And most importantly, the road can be used for transporting clean water and sanitation supplies even deeper into the slum.
最重要的是,這條公路可以用來運(yùn)送干凈的水和衛(wèi)生用品,甚至能供應(yīng)更遠(yuǎn)的貧民區(qū)。
Am I supposed to be impressed that such a person emulates the attitude of a supposed slum resident?
我應(yīng)該是印象深刻的是這樣的人應(yīng)該模擬一個(gè)貧民窟居民的態(tài)度呢?
It has been two days since the latest slum eradication, but families are still eking out a living amid the ruins.
最后一個(gè)棚戶區(qū)被徹底清除已經(jīng)過去兩天了。但是好多家庭還在廢墟中艱難地生存著。
But the absolute number of slum dwellers around the world, estimated to be some 830m, is still rising.
據(jù)估計(jì),全球范圍內(nèi),居住在貧民窟的人口絕對數(shù)仍在上升,達(dá)到了8.3億左右。
We were in the heart of West Point, the slum of Monrovia, Liberia, and arguably the densest slum in all of West Africa.
我們所在的蒙羅維亞貧民窟,是利比里亞西部的中心地帶,也是整個(gè)西非人口密度最大的貧民窟。
"Slumdog Millionaire" was the big winner at the Oscars, but following the ceremony, Ali and her fellow child stars returned to slum life.
“貧民窟的百萬富翁”是這屆奧斯卡的大贏家,但是在典禮之后,阿里和她的明星伙伴回到了貧民窟的生活。
He gazed recently at the 11-story structure, in a slum that has begun to take on the trappings of a lower-middle-class district.
最近的一天,他來到大學(xué)所在地,凝視著這座11層高的建筑。大學(xué)建在一個(gè)貧民窟之中,但那里已開始呈現(xiàn)出下層中產(chǎn)階級地區(qū)的氣象。
We spent the time talking, watching DVD's (Slum Dog Millionaire), cleaning up her yard a bit, and looking through the old photo albums.
我和媽媽閑聊、看電影(貧民窟里的百萬富翁)、清理院子,還一起看舊時(shí)的相冊。
The money will be use to educate five thousand slum children over the next five years.
這筆錢將解決五千個(gè)貧民窟孩子五年內(nèi)的教育問題。
I had an office in those days which bordered a slum, an urban slum , so there was a dividing wall between our office and the urban slum .
我當(dāng)時(shí)的辦公室在一個(gè)城市貧民窟旁邊,辦公室和貧民窟之間隔著一道墻。
In a slum outside the grand old city of Lahore, a woman named Saima Muhammad used to dissolve into tears every evening.
在老城拉哈爾的外的一處貧民窟里,一個(gè)名叫薩馬穆罕穆德的婦女過去每個(gè)晚上常常以淚洗面。
Sheikh Hafizuddin, 38, lives in a slum with a few hundred other migrants less than two miles from Cyber City.
謝赫.哈菲祖丁,38歲,與其他近百名外來打工者一起住在距離數(shù)據(jù)城不到2英里的平民窟中。
One critic of the film said it was " inconceivable" that a tea- boy from the slum would be allowed on to a television quiz show .
影片的一名批評家表示,“難以相信”一個(gè)來自貧民窟的茶童會被允許參加電視競猜節(jié)目。
At least 120 Kenyans have been killed in a fire at a fuel pipeline in a Nairobi slum.
至少有120名肯尼亞人在內(nèi)羅畢貧民窟一條燃料管道的火災(zāi)中遇難。
Diadema's transformation from dangerous slum to stable working-class neighbourhood is part of a broader change in Latin American cities.
迪亞德馬從危險(xiǎn)的貧民窟,轉(zhuǎn)變為穩(wěn)定的工人階級居住區(qū),是拉丁美洲城市更大范圍轉(zhuǎn)變的一部分。
The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack in a favela, or squatter slum.
那個(gè)農(nóng)民家庭卻擠在貧民窟中一個(gè)臨時(shí)湊合的小棚屋里。
Whether or not the government wins its war against slum development, the days when urbanization was a boost to economic growth are gone.
無論政府能否贏得清掃棚戶的戰(zhàn)斗,城市化作為推進(jìn)經(jīng)濟(jì)增長的日子一去不復(fù)返了。
I spent a few days on this trip visiting the Kibera Slum, the largest slum in Africa.
我用了好些天的時(shí)間訪問基貝拉的貧民窟——非洲最大的貧民窟。
As he belted a ball around the slum streets of Lisbon, the young Nani fantasised about being Luis Figo.
當(dāng)納尼還帶球奔跑在里斯本貧民窟的大街上時(shí),年輕的他就夢想著有朝一日能成為費(fèi)戈那樣的球員。
But as the smog fell on their slum in the afternoon of the next day two more bodies were found.
但是第二天下午當(dāng)煙霧籠罩著貧民窟的時(shí)候,他們又發(fā)現(xiàn)了兩具尸體。
City officials describe the neighborhood as an urban corner (translation: slum); residents see it as a reliable, low-rent area.
官員們將胡同視為城市的角落(就是貧民窟),居民們將之視為可靠的、租金低廉的區(qū)域。
After daybreak, the rumor of a tap with running water sent her stumbling in a panic through the slum's narrow corridors.
拂曉傳出消息,有個(gè)水龍頭能出水,查雅穿過貧民區(qū)狹窄的街道,卻在慌亂中失足摔倒,一無所獲。
Ugly aliens invade South Africa and are herded into a slum near Johannesburg, to the disgust of local residents.
丑陋的外星人入侵南非,聚集在約翰內(nèi)斯堡附近,使當(dāng)?shù)?/c>居民感到非常厭煩。
Poverty is what I'm writing about and I had my first contact with poverty in this slum.
貧窮是我所寫的事物,我在這所貧民窟第一次接觸了貧窮。
Down at the east end of the slum, however, a noisy crowd had gathered on a rubbish dump : the girls were holding a meeting.
但在這草棚區(qū)域東首一片堆垃圾的空場上,又是嚷嚷鬧鬧的一個(gè)人堆。女工們正在開大會。
against the poet's insinuating manner, and Mr. Slum entered the order in a small note-book as a three-anD-sixpenny one.
乍萊太太敵不過詩人那種死乞白賴的態(tài)度,斯拉姆先生就把三先令六便士作為一筆定貨登記在記錄薄上。
This definition seeks to target slum-dwellers face the physical and legal issues in a more accurate positioning improvement program.
這個(gè)定義旨在使主要針對貧民窟居民面對的物質(zhì)和法律問題的改善計(jì)劃定位更加準(zhǔn)確。
I basically embedded a computer into a wall of a slum in New Delhi.
基本上,我在新德里貧民窟的一個(gè)墻壁上嵌入了一個(gè)電腦。