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

• A hovel unblessed with electricity or running water.
  没有电和自来水的可怜小屋。
• 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。
• I don't know how you can bear to live in this hovel.
  我不知道你怎能忍受住在这狗窝里。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "Well," said she," they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there isn't a sou."
  “好吧，”她说，“这是些很穷的人，是个没有钱的破棚棚。”
• 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。