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
- 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。 - 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。 - Satan must have occasionally crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thenardier dwelt, and have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece.
撒旦偶然也会蹲在德纳第过活的那所破屋的某个角落里并对这个丑恶的代表人物做着好梦的。 - She's back in the old hovel already.
她已回到原来的破屋里去了。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。