| 词汇 | shack |
| 释义 | shack noun[ C ] uk /ʃæk/ us /ʃæk/ a very simple and small building made from pieces of wood, metal, or other materials简陋小屋，棚屋 Synonym hut Compare hovel shanty CampPhoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Houses & homes A-frame ADU affordable housing almshouse apartment dormitory dosshouse dower house duplex efficiency multifamily Nissen hut non-housing old people's home palace town house townhouse tract house trap house two-up two-down shack | American Dictionaryshack noun[ C ] us/ʃæk/ a simple, small building: The family lived in a one-room shack. Examples of shackshack Shack is the period after the harvest when there was a right to graze the newly harvested ground. He lived in a tumbledown shack and had survived on a small payment that he received after the accident and by visiting soup kitchens. Until recently, few houses had been built to last, but now concrete block structures are replacing wooden and wattle-and-daub houses and shacks. To the north, on the building frontier, there is a line of huts and shacks. Three-in-ten of their households occupied a shack and one-tenth had no toilet. I know of grandmothers who have to live in a back-garden shack. Many of the latter were housed for extended periods in transit camps of tents or shacks. The first law of amnesty for already built gecekondu (shacks built "overnight") enacted in 194950 was followed by similar pieces of legislation under successive governments. There we lived in a shack, a sort of house made just to shelter us. On the back cover is a photograph of another kind of home - a squatter shack, with an old car parked outside. One of their reasons for swapping a peaceful rural area for a filthy shack in an extremely violent partly urban environment is the lack of healthcare services in their homeland. We may expect shacks, and tin roofs, and all kinds of monstrosities perpetrated in some of the most beautiful parts of the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of these plots are small and ill-shaped; they have on them little shacks and the roads are only cart tracks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one wants a cup of tea one goes to an old shack covered with a tin roof and stands on cinders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have been in some of these sheds or shacks which have been substituted for what were formerly well-built public houses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of shack 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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