shanty

英 [ˈʃænti]

美 [ˈʃænti]

n.  棚屋，简陋小屋(常搭建于城市边缘); 水手号子(旧时水手边拉绳索等边唱的歌)

复数：shanties　

IELTSGRE

Collins.1 / BNC.19887 / COCA.18013

牛津词典

noun

• 棚屋，简陋小屋（常搭建于城市边缘）
  a small house, built of pieces of wood, metal and cardboard, where very poor people live, especially on the edge of a big city
• 水手号子（旧时水手边拉绳索等边唱的歌）
  a song that sailors traditionally used to sing while pulling ropes, etc.

柯林斯词典

• (穷人居住的)简陋的小屋，棚屋
  Ashantyis a small rough hut which poor people live in, built from tin, cardboard, or other materials that are not very strong.
• N-COUNT (过去水手劳动时唱的)船夫曲，水手号子,船歌
  Ashantyis a song which sailors used to sing while they were doing work on a ship.
  1. ...one of my father's favourite sea-shanties.
     我父亲最喜爱的船夫曲之一

英英释义

noun

• small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  Synonym:hovelhuthutchshack
• a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
  Synonym:chanteychantysea chantey

双语例句

• By and by we were come from the tent to this lumber shanty.
  不知不觉我们从帐篷搬进了小木屋。
• Opposite a small shanty town in Algiers, Chinese labourers in hard hats push wheelbarrows of cement and dig holes for fence posts.
  在阿尔及利亚首都阿尔及尔附近一个贫穷小镇的对面，中国工人戴着安全帽，有的推着装满水泥的手推车，有的正在挖坑，以便竖起立柱安装围栏。
• In the shanty opposite the construction site, residents complain about the difficulties of finding work and the challenges thrown up by life in their small, sparselyfurnished houses.
  在建筑工地对面的那个贫穷小镇，居民们抱怨寻找工作时困难重重，而生活在几乎没什么家具的狭小房子里，也给他们带来很多挑战。
• The census was also criticized by some local politicians for failing to count many people in shanty housing, particularly in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
  当地的一些政治家还批评这次的人口普查没有把那些住在贫民窟的人，特别是那些住在库尔德东南地区的人计算在内。
• A trip through the shanty town brought home to me just how poor the people are.
  棚户区之行使我深切地感到那里的人民何等的贫穷。
• "Over the past few decades the disease has spread dramatically," says da Silva, noting in particular the toll it has taken on the urban poor living in the shanty towns of Asia and Latin America.
  daSilva说，“过去几十年来，该疾病严重蔓延”，尤其值得注意的是，该疾病对亚洲和拉丁美洲城镇棚户区贫穷人口造成了巨大影响。
• And it is the view I have heard on sidewalks and in taxi cabs, in the marble halls of ministries, and in run down shacks of shanty towns.
  我在许多地方都曾听到这个观点，包括在人行道上、在出租车内、在政府部委的大理石会议厅内、在棚户区破门的棚屋中。
• Rescuers were searching for survivors in the district, where poor people live in shanty dwellings alongside much more upmarket homes.
  救援人员在该地区寻找生还者，人们生活在简陋的住所，在旁边是更高档的住宅。
• In this Friday, Aug.7,2009 photograph, Hira Lal, who has lost the ability to move and hear, lays on a makeshift bed outside his shanty in Bhopal, India.
  在这个星期五，2009年8月7日的照片，希拉拉尔，谁失去了行动的能力和听到的，就奠定了他在外面印度博帕尔简陋的简易床铺上。
• In 2006, when APM terminals took over, there were shanty towns in the port and vessels had to wait 30 days to berth.
  当2006年接手apm码头时，港口周边尽是些破旧的小镇，船只往往要等上30天才能停泊。