| 词汇 | example_english_slum |
| 释义 | Examples of slumThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The author mistakes occasional cultural ' slumming ' for emergent elite celebration. We can take the people out of the slums, but we cannot take the slums out of the people. No use, for instance, is made of the 1901 census returns which would have exposed the problems of poverty and slums. The often-cited, inferior quality of 'spec-built' housing (sometimes turning into slums) has been a constant complaint. However, clear ownership of the land they occupy ensures the absence of the eviction trauma affecting the inner-city slums. The reader probably needs no introduction to the phenomenon of ' slums ', or informal settlements. There were too few ' structures which authentically represent the aspirations ' of workers, campesinos, and pobladores in urban slums. Clearly, the decline and destruction of working-class communities, slums or ethnic neighbourhoods is an international tale, as the research from other places shows. The great number of children without citizenship in the slums results largely from the fact that children are born of common-law marriages, and women run off, leaving their children behind. The frequent police interventions caused disputes previously confined to the mill compound to now spill over on to the streets, bazaars and slums of the mill towns. After all, poverty, overcrowded urban slums, and underdeveloped water supply systems left much of the population open to such disease, and cholera outbreaks took place on a regular basis. Innumerable and intolerable villas, the slums of the 1940s, stretching far out into the fields - spoiling the countryside, but contributing little to it - bringing ugliness without prosperity. Therefore, we want an historical perception in dealing with this question of slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We set the local authorities free to deal with that old inveterate evil of the slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Gentleman made reference to certain houses which were provided under a previous scheme, which, he said, had deteriorated into slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us imagine that there is a dwelling in one of these slums to be cleared away. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The children are not the only people living in the slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard a great deal about slums and improvements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not reward them or punish them for living in slums, but we ought to help them out of the slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People talk as if there were or would be two classes of property geographically included in what we call slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are clearing the people out of the slums, but, far from making the position happier, they are making it unhappier. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They should also not forget to provide hotter houses for those who are now housed in slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is noted for one thing more than another it is for its awful slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of us knew something about slums, hunger, and poverty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We hear quite a lot about slums and overcrowding, and about rats, bugs, mice, and other creatures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Inside, they are equivalent to some of the worst slums in our cities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Certain areas were full of slums, and they decided to pull them down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In discussing the question of slums and the building of them he said they were not built by architects and sometimes that is so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely housing should come before battle ships when our people are living in slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 True they have all these things, but in only too many cases they have slums as well. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I give a rather comprehensive definition to slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first thing you have to do in clearing away slums is to have a place to put the unfortunate people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have talked about slums almost as long and as wearisomely as we have talked about unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have done very little indeed in the way of clearing slums and building new houses to take the place of the old ones. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing more ludicrous than to attempt to pull down slums until you have got houses into which you can put the people displaced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The case of the slums is of vital importance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were to get rid of slums, we were to spend no more money on public health. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You merely drive the people into some other area in the neighbourhood, and create further slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The fact is that slums are gaining ground in all our large towns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By the time the slums are cleaved away new ones will have been created, and there will be a new problem, and a complicated one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think the consensus of opinion is that we should get rid of the slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By the end of the year over 435,000 slums will have been cleared since we took office. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he consider those particu larly closely, because many of them are industrial slums? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The relationship between the clearance of slums and the need to build new council houses is neither uniform throughout the country nor constant over time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that our reforms will enable authorities which are burdened with slums or serious overcrowding to have greater resources to deal with those problems. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot be satisfied with the number of homes being built while people are in housing need and living in slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Information on the number of slums and the present rate of clearance can be obtained from the city council. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The authority was determined to clear away its slums and it made great sacrifices to do it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Look at our unlovely world today, our slums, our suburbs, our shops, our factories, our offices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They also estimate that there are another 5,000 houses in need of improvement to prevent them from becoming scheduled slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of these homes are aquatic slums and many more are places where people go off with other people's wives for weekends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously we cannot build new houses on the sites of the slums to accommodate all the people who have to be saved from them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that rate it would take thirty or forty years for some of the big cities to get rid of their slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first of its three legs was market value for owner-occupiers of slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unless they are improved, many of these houses will turn into slums and have to be knocked down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have in my hand photographs of my old constituency as it was with its back-to-back houses, its derelict spaces and its slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I discovered then what the city villages of the slums had meant to people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps, the danger of over-population is the first manifestation, in the centres of our cities, of the beginning of slums developing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 More, however, must be done to improve older property and at the same time get rid of slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The fourth objective is to give a massive impetus to the clearance of the slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many would say that we simply replaced slums with new slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be slums in this country until the 1980s, and beyond that in certain parts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are said to be 700,000 slums in clearance areas or potential clearance areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have created a private sector of slums because we cannot provide the housing that our people demand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was interested to hear the denial of the existence of rural slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are we creating the slums of the future? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only reference to slums is in the postponement of the abolition of slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One was to stop slums being pulled down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are many good landlords, even in the slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are now 10,000 houses which have to be allocated as between actual slums and reconditioned premises. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The scope of these operations needs to be extended or many houses structurally sound will become slums prematurely. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many slums have been created within the last 30 years by neglect to do the repairs for which the landlords have been paid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much has been said this evening about slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is hope today for the people of the slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There shall no longer be the slums and the foetid dens called cities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Slums are only the physical environment, and they are to a very considerable extent due to mental outlook. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You would be creating new slums, new overcrowding conditions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another asset we have is deliverance from the squalor of the slums and deliverance from the ravages of disease resulting from our health services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We hope that in time we shall have better facilities for treating disease and removing slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were worse than even the worst slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the other hand, where there are a great number of small landlords there are piecemeal developments of the worst form and slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that time we were therefore engaged entirely in the abolition of slums and over crowding. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 houses to deal with slums and houses grossly deficient in modern amenities is an inadequate figure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One only has to think of the slums that we have in this country that ought to be razed to the ground. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A whole city has been rehoused within a city and the slums of the nineteenth century have been eliminated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The end of the war found us with a high percentage of slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Labourers and more poorly paid seamen lived on the banksides and in the" low street" in single-room tenements in industrial and pre-industrial slums. Such violent police intervention intensified strikes, with the result that work-place conflicts then extended into the slums and streets of mill towns. The poverty, disease, and crime in the new urban slums were seen as resulting from the genetic inferiority of the inhabitants. Such a church must necessarily have been built in the slums and condemned from the first to obscurity. Traditionally, inadequate housing and sanitation along with physical contiguity were used to define the physical limits of slums. The absence of legal property rights over occupied and increasingly valuable urban land makes such slums pocket boroughs for politicians supportive of their cause. The movies had moved away from the slums. Law and order seemed fragile when opposed to the growing danger of the huge new slums whose populations were feared as classes dangereuses. To make this case, he defined poverty in" the old absolute sense of hunger and want" or as" starving children and squalid slums". In turn this encourages migration of the poor to urban slums where overcrowding and disease are often rife. Habits of regularity could be increased by regular payments of rent, slums and immoral haunts could be demolished, bawdy songs and games could be suppressed. There was gross overcrowding in slums, no refuse removal, polluted water and adulterated food. Many of these migrants live in shantytowns or slums. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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