| 词汇 | slum |
| 释义 | slumWord family nounslummerslumminessslummingslumslumlordadjectiveslummy slum1 /slʌm/ ●○○ noun 1 [countableC]POOR a house or an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where very poor people live 〔城市中的〕贫民窟，贫民区 a slum area 贫民区 slum housing 贫民区的住房 the slums of London ► see thesaurus at area 伦敦的贫民区 2. [singular] British EnglishBrE informalUNTIDY a very untidy place 非常脏乱的地方 Examples from the Corpus slum• Maria lives with her eight children in a slum outside Montevideo.• Or Pavitra, who drinks contaminated water in her Delhi slum.• The overall effect was that the world's largest and richest city of the time contained the world's most extensive slums.• He resumed his familiar whirlwind visits to the Lima slums, feeding on the energy of friendly crowds.• I grew up in the East London slums.• In the slums you can now hear the children singing.• A great deal of money has been spent conserving a block of less-than-distinguished Victorian slums and warehouses. slum2 verb slum it/be slumming informalPOOR to spend time in conditions that are much worse than you are used to – often used humorously 过穷日子，过简陋生活〔常为幽默用法〕 Jeremy doesn’t slum it when he goes away. 杰里米出门在外是不会亏待自己的。 Examples from the Corpus slum• You just can not go slumming, because slumming pretends that slums aren't real.• She made it clear that she was just slumming for a while in this business.• With other upper-middle-class young men who were studying art, Toulouse-Lautrec began slumming it in bohemian Montmartre.• Perhaps they were also saying - you can not go slumming, not in New York. |
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