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latrine

/luh-treen/US // ləˈtrin //UK // (ləˈtriːn) //

厕所,茅房,茅厕,茅坑

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a toilet or something used as a toilet, as a trench in the earth in a camp, or bivouac area.

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Examples

  • If 80 percent of cow pee were collected in latrines, for instance, that could cut associated ammonia emissions in half, previous research suggests.

  • Residents there traditionally have relied on pit latrines, which can poison well water.

  • In Naivasha, a company known as Sanivation works with groups that empty those latrines.

  • Today, most Kenyans rely on latrines — just holes in the ground, usually under a small building.

  • Two days later, when authorities did, they found eight bodies in the latrine system of the local school.

  • When I wasn't batting or playing third, I sat in the latrine and came out only when they needed me.

  • He also helped us ditch all about the tent so the rain-water would drain away, and he constructed a latrine for camp.

  • This latrine is for summer usenot for a week-end camp, you know.

  • It is wonderful what a wholesome effect on a lazy man has the imposition of three days latrine duty!

  • There was a latrine pit and an open stone hearth and a naked brown man with wild hair and a beard.