hovel

[US]/'hɒv(ə)l/
[UK]/'hʌvl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. 不适宜居住的小屋
adj. 简陋的
Word Forms
复数hovels
过去式hovelled

Example Sentences

The hovels which passed for dwellings are being pulled down.

过去用作住室的陋屋正在被拆除。

They live in a small hovel in the countryside.

他们住在乡下的一个小破屋里。

The hovel was dark and damp, with a musty smell.

那个破屋又黑又潮,散发出一股霉味。

The old man spent his days in a tiny hovel by the river.

老人在河边的一个小破屋里度过了他的晚年。

She found shelter in a hovel during the storm.

她在暴风雨中找到了一个破屋避难。

The hovel was barely big enough to fit a bed and a stove.

这个破屋勉强能容纳一张床和一个火炉。

They were forced to live in a hovel after losing their home.

他们失去家园后被迫住进了一个破屋。

The hovel was infested with rats and cockroaches.

这个破屋里到处都是老鼠和蟑螂。

He managed to make a cozy home out of the old hovel.

他设法把那个破屋改造成了一个舒适的家。

The hovel was barely standing, with its roof caving in.

那个破屋勉强还站着,屋顶都快要坍塌了。

The villagers built a hovel for the homeless family.

村民们为无家可归的家庭建造了一个破屋。

Real-world Examples

Labour produces palaces but for the workers, hovels.

劳动者通过自己的劳动建立了宫殿,自己却住在破败的房屋里。

Source: Recite for the King Volume 4 (All 60 lessons)

" Couldn't your father have that hovel cleared away, Tom? "

“汤姆,你父亲就不能把那间小破棚子拆掉吗?”

Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I don't believe anyone in this hovel does anything important.

我觉得这个小破屋里根本没有干正经事的人。

Source: Super Girl Season 2 S02

The hovel, which she had hitherto always found empty, seemed to be inhabited now.

她过去发现那棚屋一直是空着的,现在好像是有人住了。

Source: Returning Home

He dreamt an old dream of a hovel by the sea, three dogs whimpering, a woman's tears.

他又梦见那个古老的梦。海边的小屋,三只吠叫的狗,还有一位妇人的眼泪。

Source: A Dance with Dragons: The Song of Ice and Fire (Bilingual Chinese-English)

She is worried that her daughter is living in a " hovel" (hovel).

她担心女儿住在“小屋”(hovel)里。

Source: 2016 ESLPod

Then Poverty shall pass away from the land, finding no hovel so wretched where her squalid form may shelter itself.

整个世界上,贫穷将不复存在。不会有遮蔽自身污秽的悲惨鄙陋。

Source: American Original Language Arts Volume 5

She looked, and saw a flickering firelight proceeding from the open side of a hovel a little way before them.

她一瞧,只见一点摇曳不定的火光从不远处一个棚屋敞开的一面射出来。

Source: Returning Home

A " hovel" is a small, old, dirty building.

“小屋”是一种又小又旧又脏的建筑。

Source: 2016 ESLPod

I don't wanna be seen in this hovel.

我可不想被别人看到来这个破房子。

Source: Gravity Falls Season 2

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