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单词 slum
释义
slum
noun[C]
uk
/slʌm/us
/slʌm/
a verypoorandcrowdedarea,especiallyof acity:
（尤指城市中的）贫民窟，棚户区
an inner-city slum市中心的贫民窟
She wasbroughtup in the slums of Lima.她在利马的贫民区长大。
informaldisapproving
a veryuntidyordirtyplace:
脏乱的地方
Thishousewould be anabsoluteslum if I wasn't here tocleanit.如果不是我在这儿打扫，这套公寓会脏乱得完全不像样子。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities
  • anti-development
  • arrondissement
  • backstreet
  • backstreets
  • borough
  • botanic garden
  • business park
  • council estate
  • housing estate
  • industrial estate
  • marketplace
  • on skid rowidiom
  • outer ring
  • science park
  • shantytown
  • slummy
  • subdivision
  • suburb
  • suburban
  • Wimbledon
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slummy
slum
verb
informal
uk
/slʌm/us
/slʌm/
slum it
tospendtimeinconditionsthat are much less good than thestandardthat you are used to:
过穷日子，过简朴的生活
Weranout ofmoneyonholidayand had to slum it incheaphostels.我们假期里把钱都花光了，所以不得不降低标准住进了廉价旅馆。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Living or sleeping somewhere
  • abide
  • co-resident
  • co-residential
  • domiciled
  • dwell
  • inhospitable
  • live in
  • live in sinidiom
  • live out
  • lodge
  • occupancy
  • populate
  • reoccupation
  • repopulate
  • repopulation
  • reside
  • residence
  • settle
  • tenancy
  • warehousing
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(Definition ofslumfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

slum| American Dictionary

slum
noun[C]
us
/slʌm/
a verypoorandcrowdedareaof acity:
Sheworkswithchildrenin aroughNewJerseyslum.
slum
verb[I]
infml
us
/slʌm/
-mm-
tovisita slum, or toworkdoing something that is notsuitable:
Did youfeelyou were slumming by writing thiskindofpopularfiction?
(Definition ofslumfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofslum

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The author mistakes occasional cultural ' slumming ' for emergent elite celebration.
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We can take the people out of the slums, but we cannot take the slums out of the people.
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No use, for instance, is made of the 1901 census returns which would have exposed the problems of poverty and slums.
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The often-cited, inferior quality of 'spec-built' housing (sometimes turning into slums) has been a constant complaint.
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However, clear ownership of the land they occupy ensures the absence of the eviction trauma affecting the inner-city slums.
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The reader probably needs no introduction to the phenomenon of ' slums ', or informal settlements.
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There were too few ' structures which authentically represent the aspirations ' of workers, campesinos, and pobladores in urban slums.
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Clearly, the decline and destruction of working-class communities, slums or ethnic neighbourhoods is an international tale, as the research from other places shows.
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The great number of children without citizenship in the slums results largely from the fact that children are born of common-law marriages, and women run off, leaving their children behind.
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The frequent police interventions caused disputes previously confined to the mill compound to now spill over on to the streets, bazaars and slums of the mill towns.
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After all, poverty, overcrowded urban slums, and underdeveloped water supply systems left much of the population open to such disease, and cholera outbreaks took place on a regular basis.
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Innumerable and intolerable villas, the slums of the 1940s, stretching far out into the fields - spoiling the countryside, but contributing little to it - bringing ugliness without prosperity.
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Therefore, we want an historical perception in dealing with this question of slums.
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We set the local authorities free to deal with that old inveterate evil of the slums.
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Gentleman made reference to certain houses which were provided under a previous scheme, which, he said, had deteriorated into slums.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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