| 单词 | to go slumming |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go slumming a. To visit slums for charitable or philanthropic purposes, or out of curiosity, esp. as a fashionable pursuit. Also with it. Frequently in to go slumming (see slumming n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [verb (intransitive)] > visit for philanthropic purposes slum1884 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit slums for curiosity or charitable purposes slum1884 1884 Referee 22 June (Cassell) A wealthy lady went slumming through the Dials the other day. 1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 1 Oct. 2/3 A party of young fashionable people of New York thought they would go a slumming. 1887 Good Words 28 238 He had taken tea hundreds of times in workmen's houses; he had ‘slummed’ so far back as 1846. 1899 W. James Let. 8 Feb. (1920) II. 88 Kipling knows perfectly well that our camps in the tropics are not college settlements or our armies bands of philanthropists, slumming it. < as lemmas |
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