释义 |
hovelhov‧el /ˈhɒvəl $ ˈhʌ-, ˈhɑː-/ noun [countable] hovelOrigin: 1300-1400 Perhaps from Low German - He thought of Hob dying in his hovel, his wife frightened of the future.
- If you are on your own in a hovel it is nothing other than miserable.
- It shows that not all labourers' cottages were flimsy hovels and that families in this group could aspire to reasonable comfort.
- Not a hovel, not a peasant, not even a chicken nosing through the cinders.
- Ridgery Butts was a slovenly, poor village, clay and thatch hovels clustered about its church and windmill.
- The bear moved into the gardener's hovel.
- The guy who owned the hovel was named Mr Bartles.
- Yartsov and 12 other families who were assigned rundown concrete one-room hovels clustered in a muddy field.
a small dirty place where someone lives, especially a very poor person |