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

• small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  Synonym:huthutchshackshanty

双语例句

• These results indicated that GST-π is a hovel sensitive marker for immunohistochemical diagnosis and differential diagnosis of lung carcinomas.
  可见GST&π的免疫组化检测可作为肺癌诊断，鉴别诊断的一项新指标。
• 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。
• "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。”
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He took a turn round the hovel, and added
  他在那穷窟里走了一圈，又加上一句
• One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the uninhabited compartments of the hovel.
  有一天早晨，这个蓄意窥探的老婆子看见冉阿让走进这座破屋的一间没有人住的房里去了，觉得他的神气有些特别。