Over the years, Salem deteriorated and,by the 1950s,it was a slum.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

So this is a kind of model for the late Yeats in poetry the voice of the angry and wild slum woman.

这是叶芝晚期诗的一种模式,狂怒野蛮的贫民窟人的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He learned to use a camera to show the public clearly what the Mulberry Bend slum was like.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

It was a lonely fight. But his camera and fighting words helped to get a law passed which would destroy the Mulberry Bend slum.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Riis started a personal war against slum houses, the sort he saw in Mulberry Bend.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

It was a terrible slum -- as such places are called -- where too many are crowded together, where the houses and streets are dirty and full of rats.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

In a sprawling slum in the Indian capital, has only the most basic amenities in his one room tenement a single electric bulb,and a fan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

By the hundreds, Tampa's cigar factories closed, and Ybor City became a blighted slum.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15