shanty

英 [ˈʃænti]

美 [ˈʃænti]

n. 棚屋，简陋小屋(常搭建于城市边缘); 水手号子(旧时水手边拉绳索等边唱的歌)

复数：shanties　

IELTS GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.19887 / COCA.18013

牛津词典

noun

棚屋，简陋小屋（常搭建于城市边缘）
a small house, built of pieces of wood, metal and cardboard, where very poor people live, especially on the edge of a big city
水手号子（旧时水手边拉绳索等边唱的歌）
a song that sailors traditionally used to sing while pulling ropes, etc.

柯林斯词典

(穷人居住的)简陋的小屋，棚屋
Ashantyis a small rough hut which poor people live in, built from tin, cardboard, or other materials that are not very strong.
N-COUNT (过去水手劳动时唱的)船夫曲，水手号子,船歌
Ashantyis a song which sailors used to sing while they were doing work on a ship.
1. ...one of my father's favourite sea-shanties.
  我父亲最喜爱的船夫曲之一

英英释义

noun

small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Synonym:hovelhuthutchshack
a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
Synonym:chanteychantysea chantey

双语例句

There they huddle, migrants in the favelas and barrios of Latin america, in shanty towns in africa, in those horrifying encampments one sees on the outskirts of Calcutta and bombay.
在那里，他们作为移民拥挤在拉丁美洲的贫民窟和城市的郊外，在非洲简陋的村镇里，在一些你可以在加尔各答和孟买郊区看到的那些可怕的难民营里。
How would you characterize a shanty town from that picture?
你如何根据那张图来说明城市贫民区的特点。
Research on Shanghai Shanty Area Space Change ( 1927-present);
上海市棚户区空间变迁研究（1927年&至今）
"Over the past few decades the disease has spread dramatically," says da Silva, noting in particular the toll it has taken on the urban poor living in the shanty towns of Asia and Latin America.
daSilva说，“过去几十年来，该疾病严重蔓延”，尤其值得注意的是，该疾病对亚洲和拉丁美洲城镇棚户区贫穷人口造成了巨大影响。
The census was also criticized by some local politicians for failing to count many people in shanty housing, particularly in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
当地的一些政治家还批评这次的人口普查没有把那些住在贫民窟的人，特别是那些住在库尔德东南地区的人计算在内。
Rescuers were searching for survivors in the district, where poor people live in shanty dwellings alongside much more upmarket homes.
救援人员在该地区寻找生还者，人们生活在简陋的住所，在旁边是更高档的住宅。
In this Friday, Aug.7,2009 photograph, Hira Lal, who has lost the ability to move and hear, lays on a makeshift bed outside his shanty in Bhopal, India.
在这个星期五，2009年8月7日的照片，希拉拉尔，谁失去了行动的能力和听到的，就奠定了他在外面印度博帕尔简陋的简易床铺上。
Problems in the Management of Shanty Town Reform and Countermeasure Research
抚顺市棚改社区管理存在问题及对策研究
By and by we were come from the tent to this lumber shanty.
不知不觉我们从帐篷搬进了小木屋。
Many people have been forced to live in squalid shanty towns near the factories where they work.
很多人被迫住在他们所工作的工附近肮脏的棚户区内。