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　

IELTSGRE

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

• If the virus is shed via fecal matter, this will be especially significant in areas with poor sanitation, such as crowded shanty towns.
  如果病毒是经排泄物传播，这对于卫生条件较差的地区（如拥挤的贫民窟）而言，影响将非常大。
• Problems in the Management of Shanty Town Reform and Countermeasure Research
  抚顺市棚改社区管理存在问题及对策研究
• I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, an Irishman who worked on the Fitchburg Railroad, for boards.
  我已经向詹姆斯·柯令斯，一个在菲茨堡铁路上工作的爱尔兰人，买下他的棚屋来使用他的木板。
• 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。
• She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty.
  她犹豫不定地看着他，看着那间矮棚屋。
• I want to quit this shanty.
  我也要离开这烂房子。
• And it is the view I have heard on sidewalks and in taxi cabs, in the marble halls of ministries, and in run down shacks of shanty towns.
  我在许多地方都曾听到这个观点，包括在人行道上、在出租车内、在政府部委的大理石会议厅内、在棚户区破门的棚屋中。
• 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。
• They live in dormitories, shanty towns or other temporary housing and they have little stake in the new cities they have helped to build.
  他们住在集体宿舍、棚户区或其它临时住房，在自己亲身参与建设的新城市中，几乎没有获得任何利益。
• 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。