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

• 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。
• And it is the view I have heard on sidewalks and in taxi cabs, in the marble halls of ministries, and in run down shacks of shanty towns.
  我在许多地方都曾听到这个观点，包括在人行道上、在出租车内、在政府部委的大理石会议厅内、在棚户区破门的棚屋中。
• I want to quit this shanty.
  我也要离开这烂房子。
• Research on Shanghai Shanty Area Space Change ( 1927-present);
  上海市棚户区空间变迁研究（1927年&至今）
• The census was also criticized by some local politicians for failing to count many people in shanty housing, particularly in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
  当地的一些政治家还批评这次的人口普查没有把那些住在贫民窟的人，特别是那些住在库尔德东南地区的人计算在内。
• She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty.
  她犹豫不定地看着他，看着那间矮棚屋。
• I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, an Irishman who worked on the Fitchburg Railroad, for boards.
  我已经向詹姆斯·柯令斯，一个在菲茨堡铁路上工作的爱尔兰人，买下他的棚屋来使用他的木板。
• Many people have been forced to live in squalid shanty towns near the factories where they work.
  很多人被迫住在他们所工作的工附近肮脏的棚户区内。
• 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。
• 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。