| 单词 | tenement |
| 释义 | tenement noun[C] uk/ˈten.ə.mənt/us/ˈten.ə.mənt/alargebuildingdividedintoapartments, usually in apoorareaof acity （常指城市贫民区的）公寓大楼Houses & homes
tenement| American Dictionarytenement noun[C] us/ˈten·ə·mənt/atypeofapartmentbuilding,esp. one with manysmallapartmentsthat is in apoorarea tenement| Business Englishtenement noun uk/ˈtenəmənt/us[U]LAW,PROPERTY propertysuch aslandorbuildings [C]PROPERTY alargebuildingdividedintoapartments, usually in apoorareaof acity, or one of theapartments: Rapiddevelopmentisreplacingoldneighborhoodsand tenements withmodernofficebuildings. tenement flat/apartmentHelivedin a tenementflatnear thecitycentre. Examplesoftenementtenement Barred by landlords from the mainstream urban rental market, they lived in wretched tenements. From theCambridge English Corpus For every other copyholdtenementa fine at the lords will is due on admission. From theCambridge English Corpus There were fourteen instances in which poor people were admitted to tenements with either reduced or canceled fines. From theCambridge English Corpus Tens of thousands of electors might be added to or subtracted from a constituency, simply by imposing or repealing the small tenements act. From theCambridge English Corpus From there, such youngsters could carry this information throughout the alleys and tenements, along the thoroughfares and into the shops where people gadded and gossiped. From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, the small tenements act was voluntary : it was parish vestries who decided whether it should be adopted. From theCambridge English Corpus Under the small tenements act of 1850, tenants rated at less than £6 ceased to pay their own rates. From theCambridge English Corpus First, the government should grant cheap land to people on condition that they built atenementwithin six months. From theCambridge English Corpus Our use of the database throws up minor inconsistencies intenementhistories which can often be quickly resolved and the database improved. From theCambridge English Corpus Usually they lived intenementhouses or lodgings which were cramped, filthy and unhealthy. From theCambridge English Corpus They became objects of elite derision and came to personify the breakdown of morality in the city's overcrowded tenements. From theCambridge English Corpus The court cited studies by thetenementdepartment attesting to the superiority of water closets over privy vaults. From theCambridge English Corpus Unfortunately no details of the type or size of thetenementin question were given. From theCambridge English Corpus This demand was largely met by private landlords adding new storeys to their old insanitary tenements. From theCambridge English Corpus These figures identify three decades in which tenants, holding tenements larger than those usually mortgaged, were forced into mortgaging. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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