hovel

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

Translation

n. 不適宜居住的小屋
adj. 簡陋的
Word Forms
複數hovels
過去式hovelled

Example Sentences

The hovels which passed for dwellings are being pulled down.

過去用作住室的陋屋正在被拆除。

They live in a small hovel in the countryside.

他們住在鄉下的一個小破屋裏。

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

那個破屋又黑又潮,散發出一股黴味。

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

老人在河邊的一個小破屋裏度過了他的晚年。

She found shelter in a hovel during the storm.

她在暴風雨中找到了一個破屋避難。

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

這個破屋勉強能容納一張牀和一個火爐。

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

他們失去家園後被迫住進了一個破屋。

The hovel was infested with rats and cockroaches.

這個破屋裏到處都是老鼠和蟑螂。

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

他設法把那個破屋改造成了一個舒適的家。

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

那個破屋勉強還站着,屋頂都快要坍塌了。

The villagers built a hovel for the homeless family.

村民們爲無家可歸的家庭建造了一個破屋。

Real-world Examples

Labour produces palaces but for the workers, hovels.

勞動者通過自己的勞動建立了宮殿,自己卻住在破敗的房屋裏。

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

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

“湯姆,你父親就不能把那間小破棚子拆掉嗎?”

Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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

我覺得這個小破屋裏根本沒有幹正經事的人。

Source: Super Girl Season 2 S02

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

她過去發現那棚屋一直是空着的,現在好像是有人住了。

Source: Returning Home

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

他又夢見那個古老的夢。海邊的小屋,三隻吠叫的狗,還有一位婦人的眼淚。

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).

她擔心女兒住在“小屋”(hovel)裏。

Source: 2016 ESLPod

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

整個世界上,貧窮將不復存在。不會有遮蔽自身污穢的悲慘鄙陋。

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,只見一點搖曳不定的火光從不遠處一個棚屋敞開的一面射出來。

Source: Returning Home

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

“小屋”是一種又小又舊又髒的建築。

Source: 2016 ESLPod

I don't wanna be seen in this hovel.

我可不想被別人看到來這個破房子。

Source: Gravity Falls Season 2

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