单词 | shanty |
释义 | shanty From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Musicshantyshan‧ty /ˈʃænti/ noun (plural shanties) [countable]1 TBBa small, roughly built hut made from thin sheets of wood, tin, plastic etc that very poor people live in Workers were living in tents and shanties.2 (also sea shanty)APM a song sung by sailors in the past, as they did their workExamples from the Corpusshanty• Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.• This was answered inpart by a number of small-scale entrepreneurs operating in the shanty towns.• The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.• On the far side of the pond the shanties started, the lowest-lying cluster surrounded by water, flooded.• Migrant families have brought the tradition with them to the urban shanty towns.• He had visited shanty settlements known as fa las owing to their resemblance, at a distance, to honeycombs.Origin shanty 1. (1800-1900) Canadian French chantier, from French, “wooden support”, from Latin cantherius “trellis”2. (1800-1900) chantey |
随便看 |
英语词典包含170365条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。