| 词汇 | tenement |
| 释义 | tenement noun[ C ] uk /ˈten.ə.mənt/ us /ˈten.ə.mənt/ a large building divided into apartments, usually in a poor area of a city（常指城市贫民区的）公寓大楼 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 tenement | American Dictionarytenement noun[ C ] us/ˈten·ə·mənt/ a type of apartment building, esp. one with many small apartments that is in a poor area tenement | Business Englishtenement noun uk /ˈtenəmənt/us [ U ] LAW, PROPERTY property such as land or buildings [ C ] PROPERTY a large building divided into apartments, usually in a poor area of a city, or one of the apartments: Rapid development is replacing old neighborhoods and tenements with modern office buildings. tenement flat/apartmentHe lived in a tenement flat near the city centre. Examples of tenementtenement Barred by landlords from the mainstream urban rental market, they lived in wretched tenements. For every other copyhold tenement a fine at the lords will is due on admission. There were fourteen instances in which poor people were admitted to tenements with either reduced or canceled fines. Tens of thousands of electors might be added to or subtracted from a constituency, simply by imposing or repealing the small tenements act. From there, such youngsters could carry this information throughout the alleys and tenements, along the thoroughfares and into the shops where people gadded and gossiped. Furthermore, the small tenements act was voluntary : it was parish vestries who decided whether it should be adopted. Under the small tenements act of 1850, tenants rated at less than £6 ceased to pay their own rates. First, the government should grant cheap land to people on condition that they built a tenement within six months. Our use of the database throws up minor inconsistencies in tenement histories which can often be quickly resolved and the database improved. Usually they lived in tenement houses or lodgings which were cramped, filthy and unhealthy. They became objects of elite derision and came to personify the breakdown of morality in the city's overcrowded tenements. The court cited studies by the tenement department attesting to the superiority of water closets over privy vaults. Unfortunately no details of the type or size of the tenement in question were given. This demand was largely met by private landlords adding new storeys to their old insanitary tenements. These figures identify three decades in which tenants, holding tenements larger than those usually mortgaged, were forced into mortgaging. 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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