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hovel

英 ['hɒv(ə)l] 美 ['hʌvl]

解释

n. 小屋；栅舍；茅舍
vt. 使…住在茅屋；把…拴入棚舍

※ 提供单词"hovel"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

hovel 简陋的住所

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。

英文词源

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.).

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例句和用法

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。

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。

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.

4. She's back in the old hovel already.: 她已回到原来的破屋里去了.

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.