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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

      • Satan must have occasionally crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thenardier dwelt, and have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece.
        撒旦偶然也会蹲在德纳第过活的那所破屋的某个角落里并对这个丑恶的代表人物做着好梦的。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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 don't know how you can bear to live in this hovel.
        我不知道你怎能忍受住在这狗窝里。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。