hovel
英 [ˈhɒvl]
美 [ˈhʌvl]
n. (不适于居住的)肮脏简陋的住所
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.- 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。
- They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
- 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.- 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。
- I went for a living-in job, but the room I was given was a hovel.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- 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。 - When evening came, she hurried away to the hut under the trees and bathed herself in the crystal waterfall. It is far superior to the hovel at Woodend, and the small house at Saint Leonard's Crags.
到了晚上,她赶到林中的小茅屋,在晶莹发亮的瀑布边洗了澡。它比起伍登的茅舍和圣列奥纳德的小屋,不知要好上几倍。 - 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。 - One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the uninhabited compartments of the hovel.
有一天早晨,这个蓄意窥探的老婆子看见冉阿让走进这座破屋的一间没有人住的房里去了,觉得他的神气有些特别。 - 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 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。 - Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com ist to me.
你埃塞俄比亚人,从你的茅屋的门里走出,向我走近。 - Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder Jondrette girl following him through the corridor.
马吕斯一步一步慢慢地走上了老屋的楼梯,他正要回到他那冷清清的屋子里去时,忽然看见容德雷特大姑娘从过道里跟在他后面走来。 - She's back in the old hovel already.
她已回到原来的破屋里去了。 - At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and descend the staircase rapidly.
听他女人说完,容德雷特又带上了门,这一次,马吕斯听到他的脚步在过道里越走越远,很快便下了楼梯。
