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slums

/sluhm/US // slʌm //UK // (slʌm) //

贫民窟,贫民区,棚户区,贫困地区

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
    • : any squalid, run-down place to live.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    slummed, slum·ming.

    • : to visit slums, especially from curiosity.
    • : to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status.

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Examples

  • Until recently, Dashrath shared a common address with everyone around her—that of the slum itself.

  • It will add more urban residents by 2050 than any other country, according to a 2014 UN estimate, and its slums are growing faster than its cities.

  • More than a thousand homes, drainage chambers, community toilets, help centers, and drinking water tanks in the slum now have plus codes.

  • According to estimates, more than half of Nairobi’s four million people live in informal settlements, sometimes called slums.

  • The volunteers of the organisation provide a training program under which these women from slums, villages, govt.

  • Two hundred girls are weaving in and out of dirty alleys in the seaside slum of West Point, Liberia.

  • More serious still, the slum dwellers face enormous risk from unsafely built environments.

  • Some argue that these migrants are better off than previous slum dwellers since they ride motorcycles and have cellphones.

  • Hell, it worked for Tokyo in the 20th—after that city was decimated by Allied bombers, it was basically one big slum.

  • With a group of young men in the slum he formed Rock Angels, a drag act performing dance, music and drama.

  • I, followed the fates of my little slum-boys—and what I saw was that Tammany Hall was getting them.

  • Many are the shocking sights and sad experiences I have witnessed in street and slum work.

  • This slum must be our rendezvous when all's over; for hark ye, my lads, I'll not budge an inch till Luke Bradley be set free.

  • Puffs of energy had raised high buildings over there; over there an eccentric subsidence had left behind it a slum.

  • In nine cases out of ten they are lads of normal impulses whose possibilities have all been smothered by the slum.