hovel

英 [ˈhɒvl]

美 [ˈhʌvl]

n.  (不适于居住的)肮脏简陋的住所

复数：hovels　过去式：hovelled　

GRETEM8

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.
  1. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  Synonym:huthutchshackshanty

双语例句

• At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
  这时，农夫的儿子来到简陋的小屋门口。
• He took a turn round the hovel, and added
  他在那穷窟里走了一圈，又加上一句
• 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。
• There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
  穷窟里已没有面包，却还有烟。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Therefore I arose from my bed in this hovel and went forth to the beach to refresh myself with looking upon the water and the moon and breathing the cool air.
  所以我就在这小屋里起了床，走出家门，到海滩上去，看看海水和月亮，呼吸呼吸凉快的空气，给自己提神醒脑。
• The quality of the blessing was strange and healing; the solitary man walking along that road, and the hovel by the wayside, were bathed in it.
  祝福的品质神奇而具有疗效；沿着大路散步的孤独的人和路边的小屋全都沐浴在其中。
• He had led her to the rendezvous in a hovel on the city's outskirts, leaving Onn just at dusk.
  他俩在薄暮时分离开安城，他领着她来到郊外一间约定好的小茅舍。