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

• It did not even occur to him to tell her about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thenardier, about the burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father.
  他甚至没有想到要把那天夜晚在德纳第穷窟里发生的事，他父亲怎样烧伤自己的胳膊，他那奇怪的态度，机灵的脱险等等经过说给她听。
• A hovel unblessed with electricity or running water.
  没有电和自来水的可怜小屋。
• 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。
• 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。
• He took a turn round the hovel, and added
  他在那穷窟里走了一圈，又加上一句
• 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。
• It's very uncomfortable living in a dirty hovel like ours.
  住在我们这样肮脏的破屋子里，太不舒服了。
• The hovel of a cutter of wood into lengths for burning, was the only house at that end; all else was wall.
  那里唯一的房屋是一个把柴锯成短段便于烧壁炉的工人的小棚屋，此外便只有墙壁。
• 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。
• He dreamt an old dream of a hovel by the sea, three dogs whimpering, a woman's tears.
  他梦到一个曾经做过的梦：海边的旅馆，三只狗在呜咽，一个女人在流泪。