| 单词 | hut |
| 释义 | hut (once / 194 pages) n If you've ever camped under a wooden lean-to, you know what a hut is — it's a simple, usually temporary shelter that doesn't do much more than keep the rain off your head. A hut can be built from many different materials, including wood, stone, snow, or even cardboard. What all huts have in common is a simple design and the intention that it provide a short-term shelter from the weather. Campers, hikers, and skiers often rest or sleep in huts. The word comes from the French hutte, "cottage," which has its root in the Old English word for "to hide," hydan. Hut was originally used in English to describe military dwellings. WORD FAMILYhut: huts USAGE EXAMPLESOne visitor likened it to a 1970s scout hut. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Also last year, someone scrawled graffiti on a Sukkot hut at the synagogue. Los Angeles Times(Dec 25, 2016) The journey to the hut is as rich as the destination itself. The Guardian(Dec 24, 2016) 1n small crude shelter used as a dwelling Syn|Hypo|Hyper hovel, hutch, shack, shanty igloo, iglu an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome mudhifa reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained shelter a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger 2n temporary military shelter Syn|Hypo|Hyper army hut, field hut Nissen hut, Quonset hut a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section shelter a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger |
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