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'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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• She's back in the old hovel already.
  她已回到原来的破屋里去了。
• This was our word for a hovel, built by us of salvaged boards or crates and big enough for us to crawl into for secret conclaves.
  这样的陋室是我们用废弃的纸板或货箱搭建而成的，其大小只可供我们爬进去召开秘密会议，我们管这样的陋室叫“bunk”。
• 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。
• 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。
• I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, in a corner which no one ever looks into.
  我有一个孤零零的破棚子，那儿，在老庵子破屋后面的一个弯角里，谁也瞧不见的地方。