hovel
英 [ˈhɒvl]
美 [ˈhʌvl]
n. (不适于居住的)肮脏简陋的住所
BNC.21716 / COCA.23775
牛津词典
noun
- (不适于居住的)肮脏简陋的住所
a house or room that is not fit to live in because it is dirty or in very bad condition
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (尤指破败不堪的)小屋,茅舍
Ahovelis 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。
- They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
- N-COUNT 肮脏简陋的住处
You describe a house, room, or flat as ahovelto 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。
- I went for a living-in job, but the room I was given was a hovel.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
穷窟里已没有面包,却还有烟。 - A hovel unblessed with electricity or running water.
没有电和自来水的可怜小屋。 - He had a son, Loush, and lived in this hovel in the bank besides the road.
他有一个儿子,Luosh,生活在路边的小河边简陋的草棚里。 - I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, in a corner which no one ever looks into.
我有一个孤零零的破棚子,那儿,在老庵子破屋后面的一个弯角里,谁也瞧不见的地方。 - He had led her to the rendezvous in a hovel on the city's outskirts, leaving Onn just at dusk.
他俩在薄暮时分离开安城,他领着她来到郊外一间约定好的小茅舍。 - At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and descend the staircase rapidly.
听他女人说完,容德雷特又带上了门,这一次,马吕斯听到他的脚步在过道里越走越远,很快便下了楼梯。 - "Well," said she," they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there isn't a sou."
“好吧,”她说,“这是些很穷的人,是个没有钱的破棚棚。” - This was our word for a hovel, built by us of salvaged boards or crates and big enough for us to crawl into for secret conclaves.
这样的陋室是我们用废弃的纸板或货箱搭建而成的,其大小只可供我们爬进去召开秘密会议,我们管这样的陋室叫“bunk”。 - When evening came, she hurried away to the hut under the trees and bathed herself in the crystal waterfall. It is far superior to the hovel at Woodend, and the small house at Saint Leonard's Crags.
到了晚上,她赶到林中的小茅屋,在晶莹发亮的瀑布边洗了澡。它比起伍登的茅舍和圣列奥纳德的小屋,不知要好上几倍。 - The hovel of a cutter of wood into lengths for burning, was the only house at that end; all else was wall.
那里唯一的房屋是一个把柴锯成短段便于烧壁炉的工人的小棚屋,此外便只有墙壁。
