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单词 squalor
释义
squalor
noun[U]
uk
/ˈskwɒl.ər/us
/ˈskwɑː.lɚ/
theconditionof beingextremelydirtyandunpleasant, often because oflackofmoney:
（通常因为缺钱而导致的）极度肮脏
Thesepeopleareforcedtolivein squalor.这些人被迫生活在极度肮脏的环境里。
It was adirty,damp,smellyflat- theusualstudentsqualor.那是一间脏乱、潮湿、臭烘烘的公寓——常见于学生的那种肮脏。
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squalid
More examples
  • Amid thefilthand squalor, myparentstaughtme thevaluesIliveby.
  • Overnight, hewrote, hemovedfrom the "safetyandcleanlinessofruralpoverty" to the "foulestkindofurbansqualor."
  • Themedicalteamfound60,000emaciatedprisonerslivinginunimaginablesqualor.
  • How can youlivein such squalor?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dirt & untidiness
  • bloodstain
  • clutter
  • contaminant
  • contamination
  • crud
  • filthiness
  • fleck
  • grime
  • grunge
  • gunge
  • muck
  • omnishambles
  • pollutant
  • polluter
  • recontamination
  • scruff
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(Definition ofsqualorfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsqualor

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Nor is it more than a banality that a nation can enjoy huge private incomes but suffer from publicsqualor.
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This area is dominated by the most depressingsqualor.
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Some of them view these changes with regret, despite being aware of the drawbacks,squaloror low wages of many earlier village lives.
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We were prepared for crime andsqualor, but as soon as we got there this was not at all important.
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The conditions of dwellings then were grim, a lot to do with the lack of sanitation, poverty andsqualor.
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They suffer from poverty,squalor, and ill-health.
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While some squatters bemoaned drunken shepherds on their sprees, others despaired of their inability to rise above thesqualorof shepherding to become thrifty yeomen farmers, even squatters.
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Instead, a large number of them are passing their lives in a forlorn condition in camps, railway wagons, huts, in filth,squalorand dirt and in subhuman conditions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is unacceptable that our children should continue to be placed in thesqualorof our local prisons.
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It is not just thesqualor; it is the psychological effect that it has.
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The political difficulties are considerable, and they are causing distress,squalor, ill-feeling and violence.
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Squatters cause major extra costs because of the vandalism that they do and the filth andsqualorthat so many of them leave behind them.
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Thesqualoris everywhere and it has a profound effect on people, their minds and attitudes, and how they look at life.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
If one looks around, one has a picture of publicsqualor.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is a scandal that, in 1985, families are condemned to living in the most appallingsqualor.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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