贫民窟(slum)一词一直用来指最恶劣的住房条件、最不卫生的环境。贫民窟是包括犯罪、卖淫和吸毒在内的边际活动的避难所，是有可能造成多种传染病肆虐城市地区的传染源，是一个和正直、健康毫不相干的地方，印度和巴西有最大贫民窟。今天"贫民窟"这个统称词所指不明确，带有贬义。但是在发展中国家，这个词不再像最初时那样具有贬义，而仅仅是指状况比较差的或是非正式的住房。
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在贫民窟工作使她直面了解贫困的现实。
Working in the slums brought her up against the realities of poverty.
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这些贫民窟是20世纪60年代住房政策的遗迹。
These slums are an epitaph to the housing policy of the 1960s.
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贫穷产生贫民窟，那是个让人看了难受、对健康有害的地方。
Poverty leads to slums, which are an eyesore and a health hazard.
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I sometimes compare myself with the mad old slum women I hear denouncing and remembering; "how dare you?"
我有时自比贫民窟的疯老女人,我听到指责不断提及，你怎敢“
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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。
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