[ 复数 hovels 第三人称单数 hovels 现在分词 hovelling或hoveling 过去式 hovelled或hoveled 过去分词 hovelled或hoveled ]
N-COUNT A hovel is a small hut, especially one which is dirty or needs a lot of repair. (尤指破败不堪的)小屋
They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
接下来的五年中,他们住在一间肮脏不堪的小破屋里。
N-COUNT You can describe a house, room, or apartment as a hovel to express your disapproval or dislike of it because it is dirty, untidy, and in poor condition. 肮脏简陋的住处 [表不满]
The room I was given was a hovel.
分给我的房间又脏又小。
Djakarta was a collection of sweltering huts and hovels.
雅加达实际不过是一大堆闷热的棚户和茅舍。
More ruins lay beyond it—an old well, and some circles in the grass that marked the sites where hovels had once stood.
而在石墙前面,更多的废墟映入眼帘——一口古老的井,还有一圈圈小茅屋压出的草印,虽然它们已不复存在。
And these are not derelict hovels in crime-ridden communities: these homes are often in move-in condition and located in nice neighborhoods.
而且这些地区并非那种犯罪肆虐的社区:这些待售房屋都是搬进来就可以住的条件很好的居民区。
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