slum

slum
noun
  1. a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people
    贫民窟
    ■a house or building unfit for human habitation
    （不适宜人类居住的）房屋（或建筑）
(slummed, slumming)
  1. [no obj.](informal)spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes
    (非正式)（出于猎奇或为得到救济）过贫民生活
    day trippers slumming among the quaintly dangerous natives.
    一日游者与有异趣但危险的土人一起过简陋的生活。
    ■(slum it)put up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used to
    将就适应，过简陋生活
    businessmen are having to slum it in aircraft economy class seats.
    商人们不得不在飞机经济舱里将就一下。
派生
slummer
noun
slumminess
noun
slummy
( slummier, slummiest)
adjective(slummier, slummiest)
语源
  1. early 19th cent. (originally slang, in the sense 'room'): of unknown origin
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