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

• In bombay, 3 million people are squeezed into such shanty towns, in the African cities of Bogata and kinshasa, 60 percent of the citizens live in them; in Addis ababa, 79 percent.
  在孟买，300万人挤进这些棚户区，在非洲城市博加特和金沙萨，60%的居民住在贫民窟里；在亚的斯亚贝巴，达到79%。
• In this Friday, Aug.7,2009 photograph, Hira Lal, who has lost the ability to move and hear, lays on a makeshift bed outside his shanty in Bhopal, India.
  在这个星期五，2009年8月7日的照片，希拉拉尔，谁失去了行动的能力和听到的，就奠定了他在外面印度博帕尔简陋的简易床铺上。
• 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。
• 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。
• There they huddle, migrants in the favelas and barrios of Latin america, in shanty towns in africa, in those horrifying encampments one sees on the outskirts of Calcutta and bombay.
  在那里，他们作为移民拥挤在拉丁美洲的贫民窟和城市的郊外，在非洲简陋的村镇里，在一些你可以在加尔各答和孟买郊区看到的那些可怕的难民营里。
• 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。
• Problems in the Management of Shanty Town Reform and Countermeasure Research
  抚顺市棚改社区管理存在问题及对策研究
• Opposite a small shanty town in Algiers, Chinese labourers in hard hats push wheelbarrows of cement and dig holes for fence posts.
  在阿尔及利亚首都阿尔及尔附近一个贫穷小镇的对面，中国工人戴着安全帽，有的推着装满水泥的手推车，有的正在挖坑，以便竖起立柱安装围栏。
• How would you characterize a shanty town from that picture?
  你如何根据那张图来说明城市贫民区的特点。
• I want to quit this shanty.
  我也要离开这烂房子。