| 单词 | the projects |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe projects d. North American. An urban block of apartments built and administered by the government for low-income tenants, typically perceived as dangerously crime-ridden. Frequently as the projects.housing project: see housing project n. at housing n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > block of flats or apartments land1456 tenement1681 tenement house1858 barrack1862 mansions1868 apartment house1874 apartment building1883 single-decker1896 block dwellings1899 project1932 apartment block1955 condominium1962 condo1964 multi1973 1932 Amer. City Aug. 82/2 All housing projects should be large-scale developments. 1939 N.Y. Times 2 Mar. 4 The lower-income groups could not afford to live in the projects, and, as a result, the housing program would not help those who needed it most. 1966 Listener 29 Sept. 454/1 Jim lives in one of a group of fifteen-storey-high buildings that make up a project, a city-owned housing estate. A family can rent an apartment cheaply in a project if it has a low income. Officially intended to replace the slum neighbourhoods of ten years ago, the projects are stark, anonymous, all-brick slums now. 1974 J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger iv. 49 The projects..are poorly designed and vastly overcrowded—black leaders sometimes call them ‘vertical prisons’. 2004 E. Conlon Blue Blood xii. 468 It was easier to picture her in a bathrobe, rye and soda in hand, dusting the knickknack shelf.., than it was to imagine her scoring crack in the projects. < as lemmas |
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