shanty

英 [ˈʃænti]

美 [ˈʃænti]

n. 棚屋，简陋小屋(常搭建于城市边缘); 水手号子(旧时水手边拉绳索等边唱的歌)

复数：shanties　

IELTS GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.19887 / COCA.18013

牛津词典

noun

棚屋，简陋小屋（常搭建于城市边缘）
a small house, built of pieces of wood, metal and cardboard, where very poor people live, especially on the edge of a big city
水手号子（旧时水手边拉绳索等边唱的歌）
a song that sailors traditionally used to sing while pulling ropes, etc.

柯林斯词典

(穷人居住的)简陋的小屋，棚屋
Ashantyis a small rough hut which poor people live in, built from tin, cardboard, or other materials that are not very strong.
N-COUNT (过去水手劳动时唱的)船夫曲，水手号子,船歌
Ashantyis a song which sailors used to sing while they were doing work on a ship.
1. ...one of my father's favourite sea-shanties.
  我父亲最喜爱的船夫曲之一

英英释义

noun

small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Synonym:hovelhuthutchshack
a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
Synonym:chanteychantysea chantey

双语例句

I want to quit this shanty.
我也要离开这烂房子。
In 2006, when APM terminals took over, there were shanty towns in the port and vessels had to wait 30 days to berth.
当2006年接手apm码头时，港口周边尽是些破旧的小镇，船只往往要等上30天才能停泊。
How would you characterize a shanty town from that picture?
你如何根据那张图来说明城市贫民区的特点。
In the shanty opposite the construction site, residents complain about the difficulties of finding work and the challenges thrown up by life in their small, sparselyfurnished houses.
在建筑工地对面的那个贫穷小镇，居民们抱怨寻找工作时困难重重，而生活在几乎没什么家具的狭小房子里，也给他们带来很多挑战。
Lindiwe is28 and lives in a shanty town in southern Africa.
Lindiwe今年28岁，生活在非洲南部一个贫穷的小镇上。
A trip through the shanty town brought home to me just how poor the people are.
棚户区之行使我深切地感到那里的人民何等的贫穷。
There they huddle, migrants in the favelas and barrios of Latin america, in shanty towns in africa, in those horrifying encampments one sees on the outskirts of Calcutta and bombay.
在那里，他们作为移民拥挤在拉丁美洲的贫民窟和城市的郊外，在非洲简陋的村镇里，在一些你可以在加尔各答和孟买郊区看到的那些可怕的难民营里。
The census was also criticized by some local politicians for failing to count many people in shanty housing, particularly in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
当地的一些政治家还批评这次的人口普查没有把那些住在贫民窟的人，特别是那些住在库尔德东南地区的人计算在内。
In bombay, 3 million people are squeezed into such shanty towns, in the African cities of Bogata and kinshasa, 60 percent of the citizens live in them; in Addis ababa, 79 percent.
在孟买，300万人挤进这些棚户区，在非洲城市博加特和金沙萨，60%的居民住在贫民窟里；在亚的斯亚贝巴，达到79%。
Research on Shanghai Shanty Area Space Change ( 1927-present);
上海市棚户区空间变迁研究（1927年&至今）