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
- He dreamt an old dream of a hovel by the sea, three dogs whimpering, a woman's tears.
他梦到一个曾经做过的梦：海边的旅馆，三只狗在呜咽，一个女人在流泪。 - 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。 - At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
这时候，农夫的儿子刚好来到家门口。“这是你的儿子吗？”贵族问道。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。