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slum n.贫民窟vi.访问贫民区 (1) 贫民区已拆除。(2) 这个贫民窟里的小酒吧是一个充满罪恶的场所。(3) 该贫民区之污秽肮脏简直令人难以置信。(4) 她不会讲贫民区的黑话。 Some of a city's neighborhoods are fancy and full of wealthy people, while others are slums (and most are somewhere in between). In a slum, most people are poor. The living conditions are inferior in a slum, which may not have the stores, restaurants, and health services its residents want or need. In the early 1800's, the term was back slum, which meant "back alley" or "street of poor people," and was eventually shortened to simply slum.

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英 [slʌm] 美 [slʌm] (1) They've demolished the slum district.(2) The bar in the slum is a den of iniquity.(3) The slum area was sordid and filthy beyond belief.(4) She could not speak the jargon of the slum. A slum is a poor area of a big city. A slum is usually overcrowded and dirty, a discouraging place to live. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]贫民区；贫民窟 A slum is an area of a city where living conditions are very bad and where the houses are in bad condition.   [oft N n]...a slum area of St Louis.圣路易斯的贫民区...inner-city slums in the old cities of the north and east.北部和东部老城市里的市中心贫民区2[VERB 动词]逛贫民窟；体验下层社会的生活 If someone is slumming it or is slumming, they are spending time in a place or in conditions that are at a much lower social level than they are used to.   [V it]  [V]  [usu cont]...rich kids slumming it.体验下层社会生活的有钱人的孩子...aristocratic types who enjoyed slumming around in musty old Scottish castles.喜欢在发霉的苏格兰古堡里体验苦日子的贵族阶层

英语单词	slum
英美音标	英 [slʌm] 美 [slʌm]
中文释义	n.贫民窟 vi.访问贫民区
英语例句	(1) They've demolished the slum district. (2) The bar in the slum is a den of iniquity. (3) The slum area was sordid and filthy beyond belief. (4) She could not speak the jargon of the slum.
中文例句	(1) 贫民区已拆除。 (2) 这个贫民窟里的小酒吧是一个充满罪恶的场所。 (3) 该贫民区之污秽肮脏简直令人难以置信。 (4) 她不会讲贫民区的黑话。
vocabulary简明	A slum is a poor area of a big city. A slum is usually overcrowded and dirty, a discouraging place to live.
vocabulary扩展	Some of a city's neighborhoods are fancy and full of wealthy people, while others are slums (and most are somewhere in between). In a slum, most people are poor. The living conditions are inferior in a slum, which may not have the stores, restaurants, and health services its residents want or need. In the early 1800's, the term was back slum, which meant "back alley" or "street of poor people," and was eventually shortened to simply slum.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]贫民区；贫民窟 A slum is an area of a city where living conditions are very bad and where the houses are in bad condition. [oft N n] ...a slum area of St Louis. 圣路易斯的贫民区 ...inner-city slums in the old cities of the north and east. 北部和东部老城市里的市中心贫民区 2 [VERB 动词]逛贫民窟；体验下层社会的生活 If someone is slumming it or is slumming, they are spending time in a place or in conditions that are at a much lower social level than they are used to. [V it] [V] [usu cont] ...rich kids slumming it. 体验下层社会生活的有钱人的孩子 ...aristocratic types who enjoyed slumming around in musty old Scottish castles. 喜欢在发霉的苏格兰古堡里体验苦日子的贵族阶层

Slum Area Conditions Poor Place Living Bad Slumming