hovel

英['hɒv(ə)l] 美['hʌvl]
  • n. 小屋;栅舍;茅舍
  • vt. 使…住在茅屋;把…拴入棚舍

词态变化


复数: hovels;

助记提示


音:猴窝,猴屋;音:后屋,前屋很大很宽畅,后屋是茅舍
2. 谐音“好窝、好屋哦”。

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.).

双语例句


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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