flophouse

flophouse

1. Last January, however, Mr.Wei stayed in a Hebei flophouse instead of returning home for the new year holiday.

不过,去年1月,魏忠文没有回家过年,而是呆在河北的陋室中。

2. He found Jennison living in style as the proprietor of an old man's flophouse.

他发现詹妮森在一个专住老年人的鸡毛店里当老板,过着阔气的生活。

3. The pianist, he learned, was in his 40s and living in a flophouse.

他觉得弹奏得很不错,于是向演奏者留下了自己的地址。

4. I can only afford to live in a flophouse.

我只能住便宜的旅馆。

5. So there I was, a girl with a university education, a glowing rsum, a loving family, and all the other annoying characteristics of a charmed life, writhing on the urine-stained floor of a flophouse.

我屏住呼吸,避免那漂白剂和尿的气味。我走过三段到处是快餐袋、啤酒罐、。。和野猫的楼梯。我来到了他的门前,上面用黑色永久。。

6. By now, you’re already running from flophouse to flophouse, giving back-alley foot jobs for enough cash to stay alive.

现在,你已经在逃命了,从一家小旅馆换到另一家,偷偷做脚底按摩赚钱为生。

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