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　

IELTSGRE

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

• But the private sector can tackle part of it: the shanty towns and housing needs that spring up around industrial projects outside of cities.
  不过，私营部门有能力解决掉这个问题的一部分，即城郊工业项目周边涌现的棚户区和住房需求。
• If the virus is shed via fecal matter, this will be especially significant in areas with poor sanitation, such as crowded shanty towns.
  如果病毒是经排泄物传播，这对于卫生条件较差的地区（如拥挤的贫民窟）而言，影响将非常大。
• A trip through the shanty town brought home to me just how poor the people are.
  棚户区之行使我深切地感到那里的人民何等的贫穷。
• His childhood was spent in a shanty.
  他的童年是在一个简陋小屋里度过的。
• Lindiwe is28 and lives in a shanty town in southern Africa.
  Lindiwe今年28岁，生活在非洲南部一个贫穷的小镇上。
• 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。
• 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。
• And it is the view I have heard on sidewalks and in taxi cabs, in the marble halls of ministries, and in run down shacks of shanty towns.
  我在许多地方都曾听到这个观点，包括在人行道上、在出租车内、在政府部委的大理石会议厅内、在棚户区破门的棚屋中。
• They live in dormitories, shanty towns or other temporary housing and they have little stake in the new cities they have helped to build.
  他们住在集体宿舍、棚户区或其它临时住房，在自己亲身参与建设的新城市中，几乎没有获得任何利益。
• In 2006, when APM terminals took over, there were shanty towns in the port and vessels had to wait 30 days to berth.
  当2006年接手apm码头时，港口周边尽是些破旧的小镇，船只往往要等上30天才能停泊。