slums

slums

美 [sl?m] 　英 [sl?m]

• n.貧民窟；棚屋區
• v.過簡樸生活
• 網絡貧民區；貧窟；平民窟

詞形變化

同義詞

英漢雙解

習慣用語

英漢解釋

英英解釋

例句

But a flush loo is no option in slums where rain is the only form of flushing.

但沖水式廁所在貧民窟里不太實際，那里只有雨水才能起沖刷作用。

Throughout the novel, Dickens enlarges on this theme, describing slums so decrepit that whole rows of houses are on the point of ruin.

整個小說，狄更斯擴大這個主題，描述貧民窟，使整個排破舊的房屋都在點毀掉。

Charlie Chaplin, the world famous actor , was born in London in 1889 and grew up in the slums of London.

查理·卓別林，世界著名的演員，1889年出生于倫敦和成長在倫敦的貧民窟。

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

我得到了基督的呼喚，放棄一切跟隨他來到貧民窟，在最貧困的地方，作他的仆人。這是命令。

These, the bank thinks, are the real problems of urbanisation, not the multiplication of slums or congestion.

世行認為這是城市化的真正問題，而不是貧民區成倍增加，抑或人口擁擠。

The MIT researchers found that as many as one-third more businesses had opened in slums which had a microcredit branch.

麻省理工的研究者們發現三分之一以上的商業都開設在擁有小額貸款銀行支行的貧民窟。

Public housing is in good shape; no slums are allowed to fester. Soup kitchens do exist, but foreign labourers are often first in line.

的確，極端貧困是很難出現在新加坡的，公共住房形勢好，不會滋生貧民窟，流動廚房（粥鋪）總是有，外來勞工排成行。

In a meaningless battle in the slums where they lived, the gang leader had slit the throat of a boy he thought was too slick .

在他們居住的貧民窟進行的那場毫無意義的戰斗中，黑幫老大把一個他認為太圓滑的男孩的喉嚨切斷了。

Among other things, Mr. Eagle has used the data to determine how slums can be a catalyst for a city's economic vitality.

作為研究工作的內容之一，伊格爾利用這些數據去評估貧民窟對于激發一座城市的經濟活力能起到怎樣的催化作用。

My god, if you think of the way in which they've destroyed parts of cities under the rubric of eliminating slums.

我的天哪，只要想想他們為消除貧民窟、破壞城市的做法吧。

Still, the demolition of arrival-city slums is all too common a practice in such cities as Mumbai and Manila.

盡管如此，在諸如孟買和馬尼拉等落腳城市，貧民窟被拆遷的做法仍很常見。

And George Best learned the tricks that made him famous by bouncing the ball off a wall in the slums of Belfast.

喬治貝斯特在貝爾法斯特的貧民窟里對著一堵墻踢球的時候學會了使他一舉成名的踢球動作。

Slums and squatter settlements are the result of people being priced out of legal land for housing, and housing markets.

造成貧民窟和擅自居住者的居住區的原因是住宅和住房市場合法土地定價過高。

He cites one study which showed that in west Africa malaria tends to spread faster in suburban neighbourhoods than in cities and slums.

他引述了一項研究結果，該研究表明在西非，瘧疾在郊區的傳播比在城市和貧民窟的傳播要快。

Without a daily police presence, city services suffered, and doctors and other professionals began to shun the slums for safety reasons.

沒有了警察的日常出面，市政變得糟糕，醫生和其他的專業人士因為安全因素逃離了貧民窟。

Like the "Slumdog Millionaire" actors, Syed was also plucked from Mumbai's teeming slums and catapulted to global stardom.

《貧民窟的百萬富翁》里的童星們一樣，他也是從孟買的貧民窟里走出，一躍成為國際明星。

Violence has erupted periodically in the slums of Algiers and other cities for at least two years.

阿爾及耳和其他城市的貧民窟至少兩年會周期性地發生暴力活動。

There has been a steady population shift from rural to urban areas, causing large urban slums and unemployment.

農村人口一直在不斷地流入城市，造成失業和大規模的貧民區。

"We will need more than advertising to light up the slums, " she said.

和幫助貧民窟的照明這種廣告比起來，我們需要更多。

The organization also provides training to its employees and supports schools in the slums in which many of its employees live.

這個組織還為員工提供培訓，并且支援員工們居住的貧民窟里的學校。

It has made itself a home in the wild forest of our great cities, amid the rank and choking vegetation of slums!

它在我們許多大城市的野林中安了家，就在貧民窟發臭的、令人窒息的草木之中！

The capitalist private ownership society people's able to destroy the most don't underworld, prostitutes, drugs, slums and high crime rate.

資本主義私有制社會無法消滅人民群眾最不要的黑社會、娼妓、毒品、貧民窟和高犯罪率。

An illegitimate child, she grew up in the slums of Naples during wartime in dire poverty.

她是一個私生女，戰爭期間在那不勒斯極度貧困的貧民窟里長大。

Who was he? A lowlife from the slums of Alexandria who hangs out with the likes of Ptolemy?

他是誰？一個來自亞歷山大貧民窟的，象托勒密一樣的卑劣的人？

Even the police, one of the most brutal forces in the world, are starting to win praise for pacifying bandit-ridden slums.

即使是里約州警，全球最慓悍的警力之一，亦因弭平盜匪橫行的貧民窟而開始贏得贊賞。

The following year the Vatican gave her permission to leave Loretto and she set up her first school in the slums of Calcutta.

隔年，梵諦岡教廷允許她離開樂瑞陶修女會，在加爾各答的貧民窟開辦第一所學校。

Slums 'are economic springboards, ' he said.

他說，貧民窟是一塊經濟跳板。

Then in 1964, Brazil passed a law to encourage landless peasants to leave the slums and develop the interior.

直到1964年，巴西通過了一項法律，鼓勵沒有土地的農民走出貧民窟，自主開發國內的土地。

Still, the area remains poor and many residents dwell in slums, according to a report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

據聯合國人居署報告，加爾各答仍然貧窮，許多人居住在貧民窟。

Such rapid and uncontrolled growth helped to turn parts of cities into slums.

這種快速、毫無節制的增長使城市的某些地方變成了貧民窟。

it may be the next Reba people, in slums, dirty streets, tattered clothes next to their high-pitched singing the song of life.

它或許是下里巴人，在貧民窟骯臟的街道上、破爛的衣衫旁，高亢地唱著生命的歌。

He was actually living in the Kibera slums when his father called him and told him about Artemisia and the value-add potential.

當他爸告訴他青蒿和它的增長潛力時他還是一位住在Kibera貧民窟的人。

However, this will be clearly unable to account for the vandalism prevailing among some slums or ghettoes.

然而這種假設無法解釋貧民窟中普遍的惡意行為。

It is a vow that will be hard to keep, except as part of a broad effort to improve life in the world's expanding slums.

這是個很難遵守的誓言，除非將其納入到努力改善世界上不斷擴大的貧民窟的貧民的生活的項目中去。

The health ministry fears that if cholera gets a foothold in the capital, the urban slums are likely to be hardest hit.

衛生部長擔心一旦霍亂疫情在首都立足，城市里的貧民窟將受到嚴重的打擊。

As policemen beat him with a bamboo stick to shoo him and his family away, his home in Mumbai's slums was swiftly demolished.

警察用竹棍打他，把他和她的家人趕走，他在孟買貧民窟的家就這樣輕易的被毀了。

Modern urban planning and redevelopment arose in response to the disorder and squalor of the slums created by the Industrial Revolution.

工業革命所形成的貧民區臟亂現象，引發了現代的城市規畫和改建運動。

The game has attracted many players from Brazil's slums, who see soccer as a ticket out of poverty.

它吸引了許多貧民成為球員因為他們足球當作是脫離貧困的途徑。

Use some of that money to wipe out these slums and put America back to work!

將一部分開支用于消除這些貧民窟，讓美國重新運轉！

Visitors to the slums were clearly shocked to see so many families living in want.

到過貧民窟的人看到有這么多的家庭生活在貧苦之中顯然震驚不已。

I should throw away my pen and move into the slums, where I could relieve poverty better and more efficiently than with a poisonous book.

我應該扔掉我的鋼筆，搬到貧民窟去，我才能更好地緩解貧窮的疼痛，這比對著一本討厭的書更有效果。