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

• small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  Synonym:huthutchshackshanty

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
  穷窟里已没有面包，却还有烟。
• "Well," said she," they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there isn't a sou."
  “好吧，”她说，“这是些很穷的人，是个没有钱的破棚棚。”
• A hovel unblessed with electricity or running water.
  没有电和自来水的可怜小屋。
• 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”。