单词 | slum street |
释义 | > as lemmasslum street C1. attributive and in other combinations, as slum area, slum-burrow, slum-dweller, slum-literature, slum-people, slum property, slum street, etc.; slum-bred adj.Many combinations of these types occur in recent newspaper usage. (N.E.D.) Π 1863 B. Jerrold Signals of Distress 7 It is a genuine bit of slum-literature. 1878 Gordon Jrnl. in Hill G. in C. Africa (1881) 326 These slum people liked their visitor. 1887 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 772 That class rarely stray..from their slum-burrows and dens. 1891 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 548 Tens of millions will be exposed to the physical and mental blight of the ‘submerged’ slum-dweller. 1898 E. Howard To-morrow xiv. 147 What will become of this slum property?.. These wretched slums will be pulled down. 1924 Glasgow Herald 8 Mar. 7 The slum problem is fundamentally not one of stone and lime or cubic space, but of mental and social outlook. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. vii. 57 Slum~dwellers were such good sorts! 1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. vi. 537 A tribe of inconceivable people who lived in a slum street in a dark English town. 1935 ‘C. S. Forester’ Afr. Queen iv. 86 His slum-bred father and mother. 1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune ii. ii. 151 The Church..held slum-property, helped to exploit innocent native tribes and ruined their morals and physique. 1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 20 Low wages and the growth and shift of population had brought into existence a huge, dangerous slum-proletariat. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xviii. 389 A row of crowded slum houses with front doors cheek by jowl. 1959 J. Cary Captive & Free ix. 41 The mid-town terraces which can and have so easily become slum tenements. 1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene (1960) vi. 100 The penalties of the isolated, community-less life of the slum-bred entertainer. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 27/1 Maple Leafs can muddle into the slum area of fifth place and there are few hoots of derision. a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 182 The town itself has some 30,000 or 40,000 inhabitants..who don't want Birmingham slum dwellers dumped on them as overspill. 1979 G. St. Aubyn Edward VII viii. 379 She insisted on being shown his slum property in the East End of London. 1980 ‘J. Melville’ Chrysanthemum Chain 135 Walker made his way out and into the shabby slum street. < as lemmas |
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