tent city 的定义
- an area set up with tents, especially to house unsheltered, homeless, or displaced people.
tent city 近义词
等同于 camp
更多tent city例句
- He highlighted reporting on the sprawling tent cities south of the San Ysidro port of entry, growing because of the Migrant Protection Protocols, a federal policy that’s forced migrants to wait in Mexico as their cases are resolved.
- The residents of this tent city are asylum-seekers who have already been waiting in Mexico for months and hope the new president means their wait is finally over.
- Speaking of MPP, two local reporters wrote separate stories about a sprawling tent city growing just south of the San Ysidro port of entry.
- KPBS’s Max Rivlin-Nadler painted a vivid picture of life in this growing tent city, which has attracted a crew of volunteer cooks, doctors, teachers and social workers.
- The deadly crash Monday as a storm approached was a shocking reminder of the dangers people who live in those tent cities face and of the challenge the mayor and a largely new class of City Council members have inherited.
- Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate.
- To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
- Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.
- “I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.
- Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.
- The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
- This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through.
- When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.
- Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts' yearnings beneath the children's tent, which they had found unoccupied.
- You see, I am the city undertaker, and the people are dying here so fast, that I can hardly supply the demand for coffins.