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hovel

英 [ˈhɒvl]

美 [ˈhʌvl]

n.  (不适于居住的)肮脏简陋的住所

复数:hovels 过去式:hovelled 

GRETEM8

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.
        1. 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。
      • 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.
        1. 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。

      英英释义

      noun

      双语例句

      • "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。”
      • The quality of the blessing was strange and healing; the solitary man walking along that road, and the hovel by the wayside, were bathed in it.
        祝福的品质神奇而具有疗效;沿着大路散步的孤独的人和路边的小屋全都沐浴在其中。
      • It's very uncomfortable living in a dirty hovel like ours.
        住在我们这样肮脏的破屋子里,太不舒服了。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
        穷窟里已没有面包,却还有烟。
      • It did not even occur to him to tell her about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thenardier, about the burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father.
        他甚至没有想到要把那天夜晚在德纳第穷窟里发生的事,他父亲怎样烧伤自己的胳膊,他那奇怪的态度,机灵的脱险等等经过说给她听。
      • Therefore I arose from my bed in this hovel and went forth to the beach to refresh myself with looking upon the water and the moon and breathing the cool air.
        所以我就在这小屋里起了床,走出家门,到海滩上去,看看海水和月亮,呼吸呼吸凉快的空气,给自己提神醒脑。
      • Wireless sensor networks are a hovel technology about acquiring and processing information.
        无线传感网络是一门获取和处理信息的新兴技术。
      • At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
        这时,农夫的儿子来到简陋的小屋门口。