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单词 hovel
释义
hovelhov‧el /ˈhɒvəl $ ˈhʌ-, ˈhɑː-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINhovel
Origin:
1300-1400 Perhaps from Low German
Examples
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  • 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
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