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
- 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”。 - 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'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。 - Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder Jondrette girl following him through the corridor.
马吕斯一步一步慢慢地走上了老屋的楼梯,他正要回到他那冷清清的屋子里去时,忽然看见容德雷特大姑娘从过道里跟在他后面走来。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com ist to me.
你埃塞俄比亚人,从你的茅屋的门里走出,向我走近。 - 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。