释义 |
shantytownshan‧ty‧town /ˈʃæntiˌtaʊn/ noun [countable] - Bulldozers moved in to knock down the shantytown.
- He searched for the uncle as well, scouring often through the shantytown near Cholon; but he never found him either.
- How many shantytowns of the Third World would not cherish one of those suburban bungalows you so despise?
- People were crammed into old, dilapidated buildings or flimsy shantytowns or crudely built new housing.
- Well into the 1900s there were black shantytowns outside of Leavenworth, Atchison, and Kansas City.
a very poor area in or near a town where people live in small houses made from thin sheets of wood, tin etc |