| 释义 |
hamletham‧let /ˈhæmlɪt/ noun [countable]   hamletOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French hamelet, from ham ‘village’ - Both lived in Coahoma, a hamlet of about 1, 200 residents 10 miles to the east of Big Spring.
- He told those responsible their hamlet would burn if it happened again.
- His repressions were too blatant, his strategic hamlet and land-reform programs had too obviously failed.
- Its total population in the mid-nineteenth century was probably in excess of many medieval hamlets or even small villages.
- The western hamlet has survived with the present parish church of St Nicholas.
ADJECTIVE► small· Burton, which has the large medieval church, is a very small hamlet.· It was de-signed to give us the courage, as temporary civil rights workers, to penetrate the small hamlets farther south.· After a mile, the road passes through a small hamlet.· This gets us to Santa Catarina, a small inland hamlet.· There used to be two small hamlets just outside but part of the village, known as Mill Cottages and Pry Cottages.· Over eighty-five percent of these are scattered throughout the country in small villages and hamlets.· Everyone who was living in a small hamlet on the lake's edge fled into the forest at news of their approach.· Alongside the villages with their surrounding lands there were small hamlets and isolated farmsteads. ► tiny· Seven farms had been enclosed in 1512 in a move that must effectively have crippled this tiny hamlet.· She plays Beth, a transplanted Los Angeles teen trying to adjust to her new life in a tiny Washington state hamlet.· Our story really begins in 1575, on a wet and blustery night in the tiny hamlet of Shefford Woodlands. a very small village |