| 释义 |
slum /slAm; s m/ n 1 court, alley or street of small, badly-built, dirty, crowded houses: 房屋航脏而拥挤的巷弄或街道; 陋巷： live in a ~. 居于陋巷。 2 the ~s, part(s) of a town where there are such houses. 贫区; 贫民窟。 ~ clearance, the demolishing of ~s and the rehousing of the people living in them. 消除贫民窟运动(重新安置贫民窟住户的努力)。 vi (-mm-) 1 visit the ~s to give charitable aid to the people in them. 访问贫民窟而给予慈善救济。 2 (colloq) live very cheaply. (俗) 过贫民窟般的生活; 过贫苦生活。 ~my adj of ~s: 贫民窟的： a -my part of the town. 城市里的贫民窟。 |