hovel

英 ['h?v(?)l] 美['h?vl]
  • n. 小屋;柵舍;茅舍
  • vt. 使…住在茅屋;把…拴入棚舍

TEM8GRE暢通詞匯

詞態(tài)變化


復數(shù):?hovels;

助記提示


音:猴窩,猴屋;音:后屋,前屋很大很寬暢,后屋是茅舍
2. 諧音“好窩、好屋哦”。

中文詞源


hovel 簡陋的住所

來自古英語hof,圍欄,居住地,屋子,來自Proto--Germanic*hufa,小山,農(nóng)莊,來自PIE*keup,彎,轉(zhuǎn),詞源同hive,cubicle,cooper.引申詞義簡陋的住所。

英文詞源


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.).

雙語例句


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,但分給我的房間簡直不是人住的地方。

來自柯林斯例句

2. They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
接下來的5年中,他們住在一間骯臟不堪的小破屋里。

來自辭典例句

3. It's very uncomfortable living in a dirty hovel like ours.
住在我們這樣骯臟的破屋子里,太不舒服了.

來自辭典例句

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

來自辭典例句

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這狗窩里.

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