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单词 slummy
释义
slummy
adjective
uk
/ˈslʌm.i/us
/ˈslʌm.i/
(of anarea,especiallyin acity) verypoorandcrowded:
（城市里）贫民区的
Shefoundherself in a slummy backstreet.她意识到自己身处贫民区偏僻的后巷里。
In the 1950s, he tookphotographsof New York thatportrayedthecityas slummy,trashy, anddamaged.他在20世纪50年代拍摄的照片将纽约描绘为一个贫瘠、破旧和饱受破坏的城市。
UK
untidyordirty:
We'llseehowlongittakeshim to getfedup withdearDaddy and his slummyways.
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  • Hewantedtorevivethe city'sremainingthreekilometresoffilthy, slummywasteland.
  • Herfriendsthoughtshe wasnutstobuyanemptybuildingon a slummystreetin Portland.
  • Shediedin a slummyroomwith hispictureon thewall.
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(Definition ofslummyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
slummy
adjective
uk
/ˈslʌm.i/us
/ˈslʌm.i/
(of anarea,especiallyin acity) verypoorandcrowded
（城市里）贫民区的
Shefoundherself in a slummy backstreet.她意识到自己身处贫民区偏僻的后巷里。
In the 1950s, he tookphotographsof New York thatportrayedthecityas slummy,trashy, anddamaged.他在20世纪50年代拍摄的照片将纽约描绘为一个贫瘠、破旧和饱受破坏的城市。
See
slum
More examples
  • Hewantedtorevivethe city'sremainingthreekilometresoffilthy, slummywasteland.
  • Herfriendsthoughtshe wasnutstobuyanemptybuildingon a slummystreetin Portland.
  • Shediedin a slummyroomwith hispictureon thewall.

Examplesofslummy

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The place was scrupulously clean; everything was sweet, and there was none of that horribleslummysmell which one finds in slums in this country.
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It is a very strange thing about slumdom, that the moreslummythey are the more beautiful are the names.
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It is no good building a wonderful structure right at the top if down below there areslummyoffices.
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The reason was that the original residents felt thatslummyconditions would develop in the street.
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It cannot be right to build beautiful new houses and to leaveslummyfactories in the middle of them.
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Does that mean that a town council, say, should never clear away aslummystreet until it is prepared to build the whole city anew?
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They were the cause of the congestion of the population in our vastslummytowns.
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There were many poor and evenslummyproperties on the estate.
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I asked what percentage of the people in thoseslummyareas were problem families.
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English cities, even when they wereslummy, had certain specific qualities: they consisted of little, low houses which had a certain domesticity of scale and of feeling.
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This is veryslummyproperty.
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They were real, dilapidated, derelict,slummyplaces.
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There has been the inevitable deterioration in places where there is much slum property which has become more "slummy" and required more drastic attention from the local authorities.
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Now there is new housing, but the schools, which are just asslummy, are still there because there is no money available in any programme for replacing them.
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The impression is more like that of a ratherslummyair raid shelter with three bunks; one double, one up and one down, and one single.
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