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

• "Over the past few decades the disease has spread dramatically," says da Silva, noting in particular the toll it has taken on the urban poor living in the shanty towns of Asia and Latin America.
  daSilva说，“过去几十年来，该疾病严重蔓延”，尤其值得注意的是，该疾病对亚洲和拉丁美洲城镇棚户区贫穷人口造成了巨大影响。
• 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。
• In bombay, 3 million people are squeezed into such shanty towns, in the African cities of Bogata and kinshasa, 60 percent of the citizens live in them; in Addis ababa, 79 percent.
  在孟买，300万人挤进这些棚户区，在非洲城市博加特和金沙萨，60%的居民住在贫民窟里；在亚的斯亚贝巴，达到79%。
• Investigation of the Living Condition of Migrant Workers in Shanty Towns& Take the Situation in Changsha as Example
  棚户区进城务工人员生存状况研究&以长沙市为例
• In the shanty opposite the construction site, residents complain about the difficulties of finding work and the challenges thrown up by life in their small, sparselyfurnished houses.
  在建筑工地对面的那个贫穷小镇，居民们抱怨寻找工作时困难重重，而生活在几乎没什么家具的狭小房子里，也给他们带来很多挑战。
• 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。
• Lindiwe is28 and lives in a shanty town in southern Africa.
  Lindiwe今年28岁，生活在非洲南部一个贫穷的小镇上。
• In this Friday, Aug.7,2009 photograph, Hira Lal, who has lost the ability to move and hear, lays on a makeshift bed outside his shanty in Bhopal, India.
  在这个星期五，2009年8月7日的照片，希拉拉尔，谁失去了行动的能力和听到的，就奠定了他在外面印度博帕尔简陋的简易床铺上。
• Rescuers were searching for survivors in the district, where poor people live in shanty dwellings alongside much more upmarket homes.
  救援人员在该地区寻找生还者，人们生活在简陋的住所，在旁边是更高档的住宅。
• Opposite a small shanty town in Algiers, Chinese labourers in hard hats push wheelbarrows of cement and dig holes for fence posts.
  在阿尔及利亚首都阿尔及尔附近一个贫穷小镇的对面，中国工人戴着安全帽，有的推着装满水泥的手推车，有的正在挖坑，以便竖起立柱安装围栏。