中英互译

slum

英 /slʌm/美 /slʌm/

基本释义

复数slums

第三人称单数slums

现在分词slumming

过去式slummed

过去分词slummed

CET6考研IELTS

贫民窟，棚屋区cn.
- These slums are an epitaph to the housing policy of the 1960s.
  这些贫民窟是20世纪60年代住房政策的遗迹。
- Most urban Africans live in slums; migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside.
  大多数非洲城市居民生活在贫民窟里；移民的生活状况往往并不比他们在农村时好多少。
- A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap.
  有十亿人生活在贫民窟，虽然与上面提到的十亿人不相同，但他们之间有重叠。
<非正式>脏乱的房子（或房间）n. (sing.)
- Ted's apartment is a slum because he never clean it.
  泰德的公寓又脏又乱，因为他从不打扫。
<非正式>（短期）去贫穷地方，过简朴生活vi.
- There are plenty of ways you can cut costs on your trip without slumming.
  在旅行中，有许多办法既可以减少开销又不至于显得寒酸。

This bum is an unemployed man in the slum.
这个流浪汉是贫民区的一个失业者。
Several businessmen had to slum it in economy class.
几个商人只好将就着坐在经济舱里。
来自《牛津词典》
In Sal Paulo, you can see shopping malls full of designer goods right next door to the slum areas without proper water and electricity supplies.
在萨尔保罗，你可以看到紧挨着贫民区的购物中心里满是名牌商品，却没有适当的水电供应。

[经]贫民窟；陋巷；脏乱的地方

adj.

slummy贫民区的；贫民窟的

贫民窟

80.8%

贫民区

17.3%

平民窟

1.9%

n.
an area of a city where the buildings are in bad condition and the people are very poor
贫民窟；贫民区
- More than 2.4 million people live in the city's slums.
  有240多万人住在城里贫民区。

slum贫民窟
缩写自 back slum,后街，穷人街，来自俚语 slum,房间，屋子，可能来自拟声词，模仿破屋子嘎吱嘎吱的声音。比较 slam,slammer.