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squalor

/skwol-er, skwaw-ler/US // ˈskwɒl ər, ˈskwɔ lər //UK // (ˈskwɒlə) //

棚户区,棚屋,棚户区改造,肮脏的地方

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the condition of being squalid; filth and misery.

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Examples

  • Remember, if it wasn’t for Biles bringing her clout to the issue, these users would still be making women train in the buggy squalor of the Karolyi Ranch, the USOPC-sanctioned hellhole where they were molested.

  • She had a big role in recasting downtown as a desirable destination after decades of squalor.

  • Critics dubbed these settings Greeneland, as if the squalor and trauma were pure invention.

  • The overcrowded school where the family had sought refuge was a scene of despair and squalor.

  • Money means more to you than just status or new toys; it is freedom, a way out of squalor for both you and your family.

  • So it is with Just Send Me Word, a heroic love story amid the squalor and degradation of the Gulag.

  • “It feels terrible to go back there and see so many people living in such squalor,” says Farmer.

  • The once handsome young man was unrecognizable in his squalor.

  • And over all these changes from grandeur to squalor, bent down the purple heavens with their unchanging splendour!

  • That life was one passed largely in dulness and perhaps comparative squalor.

  • Individual competition, in uncontrolled energy, reigned supreme amid almost incredible suffering and squalor.

  • And this poverty and squalor were not to be found only in one part of Poland, they seem to have been general.

  • The meanness, the squalor, the degradation of his morale and life are not discernible in his works.