hovel

• n. 小屋；栅舍；茅舍
• vt. 使…住在茅屋；把…拴入棚舍

来自古英语hof,围栏，居住地，屋子，来自Proto--Germanic*hufa,小山，农庄，来自PIE*keup,弯，转，词源同hive,cubicle,cooper.引申词义简陋的住所。

hovel (n.)

mid-14c., "roofed passage, vent for smoke," later "shed for animals" (mid-15c.), of unknown origin. Meaning "shed for human habitation; rude or miserable cabin" is from 1620s. It also sometimes meant "canopied niche for a statue or image" (mid-15c.).

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。

来自柯林斯例句

2. 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。

来自辞典例句

3. 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.

来自辞典例句

4. She's back in the old hovel already.

她已回到原来的破屋里去了.

来自辞典例句

5. 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.

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