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

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。
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）
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。
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。
By and by we were come from the tent to this lumber shanty.
不知不觉我们从帐篷搬进了小木屋。
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。
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%。
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。
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。
Opposite a small shanty town in Algiers, Chinese labourers in hard hats push wheelbarrows of cement and dig holes for fence posts.
在阿尔及利亚首都阿尔及尔附近一个贫穷小镇的对面，中国工人戴着安全帽，有的推着装满水泥的手推车，有的正在挖坑，以便竖起立柱安装围栏。