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

• 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。
• Many people have been forced to live in squalid shanty towns near the factories where they work.
  很多人被迫住在他们所工作的工附近肮脏的棚户区内。
• His childhood was spent in a shanty.
  他的童年是在一个简陋小屋里度过的。
• 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。
• I've heard that there is a bully staying at a shanty by the woods.
  我听说在森林的小屋子里有个杀手。
• 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。
• 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。
• Rescuers were searching for survivors in the district, where poor people live in shanty dwellings alongside much more upmarket homes.
  救援人员在该地区寻找生还者，人们生活在简陋的住所，在旁边是更高档的住宅。
• In this Friday, Aug.7,2009 photograph, Hira Lal, who has lost the ability to move and hear, lays on a makeshift bed outside his shanty in Bhopal, India.
  在这个星期五，2009年8月7日的照片，希拉拉尔，谁失去了行动的能力和听到的，就奠定了他在外面印度博帕尔简陋的简易床铺上。
• 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。