| 词汇 | slummy |
| 释义 | slummy adjective uk /ˈslʌm.i/ us /ˈslʌm.i/ (of an area, especially in a city) very poor and crowded: （城市里）贫民区的 She found herself in a slummy back street.她意识到自己身处贫民区偏僻的后巷里。 In the 1950s, he took photographs of New York that portrayed the city as slummy, trashy, and damaged.他在20世纪50年代拍摄的照片将纽约描绘为一个贫瘠、破旧和饱受破坏的城市。 UK untidy or dirty: 脏的;不整洁的 We'll see how long it takes him to get fed up with dear Daddy and his slummy ways. See slum He wanted to revive the city's remaining three kilometres of filthy, slummy wasteland. Her friends thought she was nuts to buy an empty building on a slummy street in Portland. She died in a slummy room with his picture on the wall. Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities anti-development arrondissement backstreet backstreets borough botanic garden business park Chinatown housing estate industrial estate inner ring marketplace midtown non-residential old town outer ring plaza skid subdivision uptown You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Unpleasant places Examples of slummyslummy The place was scrupulously clean; everything was sweet, and there was none of that horrible slummy smell which one finds in slums in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a very strange thing about slumdom, that the more slummy they are the more beautiful are the names. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is no good building a wonderful structure right at the top if down below there are slummy offices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason was that the original residents felt that slummy conditions would develop in the street. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It cannot be right to build beautiful new houses and to leave slummy factories in the middle of them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does that mean that a town council, say, should never clear away a slummy street until it is prepared to build the whole city anew? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were the cause of the congestion of the population in our vast slummy towns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were many poor and even slummy properties on the estate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I asked what percentage of the people in those slummy areas were problem families. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 English cities, even when they were slummy, had certain specific qualities: they consisted of little, low houses which had a certain domesticity of scale and of feeling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is very slummy property. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were real, dilapidated, derelict, slummy places. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been the inevitable deterioration in places where there is much slum property which has become more "slummy" and required more drastic attention from the local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now there is new housing, but the schools, which are just as slummy, are still there because there is no money available in any programme for replacing them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The impression is more like that of a rather slummy air raid shelter with three bunks; one double, one up and one down, and one single. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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