| 单词 | slum |
| 释义 | slum (once / 1319 pages) nv A slum is a poor area of a big city. A slum is usually overcrowded and dirty, a discouraging place to live. Some of a city's neighborhoods are fancy and full of wealthy people, while others are slums (and most are somewhere in between). In a slum, most people are poor. The living conditions are inferior in a slum, which may not have the stores, restaurants, and health services its residents want or need. In the early 1800's, the term was back slum, which meant "back alley" or "street of poor people," and was eventually shortened to simply slum. WORD FAMILYslum: slummed, slumming, slummy, slums+/slummy: slummily USAGE EXAMPLESShe was now selling samosas in the slum to survive. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) The BBC visited Dharavi, a sprawling slum in the centre of Mumbai, which is ordinarily a hub of small scale industry. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) Mr Latham also campaigned for tenants' rights, a particular issue in his part of London, in which slum landlords operated. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) 1n a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions Syn|Hypo|Hyper slum area shantytown a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties skid rowa city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts city district a district of a town or city 2v spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century Hyper pass, spend pass time in a specific way |
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