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　

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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

• 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。
• He had a son, Loush, and lived in this hovel in the bank besides the road.
  他有一个儿子，Luosh，生活在路边的小河边简陋的草棚里。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "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。”
• 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。
• She's back in the old hovel already.
  她已回到原来的破屋里去了。
• 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。
• He took a turn round the hovel, and added
  他在那穷窟里走了一圈，又加上一句