slum

/sluhm/US // slʌm //UK // (slʌm) //

贫民窟,贫民区

Related Words

n.名词 noun

1
- : Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- : any squalid, run-down place to live.

v.无主动词 verb

1
slummed, slum·ming.
- : to visit slums, especially from curiosity.
- : to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status.

nounghetto

Forms: slums

Synonyms

Until recently, Dashrath shared a common address with everyone around her—that of the slum itself.
It will add more urban residents by 2050 than any other country, according to a 2014 UN estimate, and its slums are growing faster than its cities.
More than a thousand homes, drainage chambers, community toilets, help centers, and drinking water tanks in the slum now have plus codes.
According to estimates, more than half of Nairobi’s four million people live in informal settlements, sometimes called slums.
The volunteers of the organisation provide a training program under which these women from slums, villages, govt.
Two hundred girls are weaving in and out of dirty alleys in the seaside slum of West Point, Liberia.
More serious still, the slum dwellers face enormous risk from unsafely built environments.
Some argue that these migrants are better off than previous slum dwellers since they ride motorcycles and have cellphones.
Hell, it worked for Tokyo in the 20th—after that city was decimated by Allied bombers, it was basically one big slum.
With a group of young men in the slum he formed Rock Angels, a drag act performing dance, music and drama.
I, followed the fates of my little slum-boys—and what I saw was that Tammany Hall was getting them.
Many are the shocking sights and sad experiences I have witnessed in street and work.

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- : any squalid, run-down place to live.

v.无主动词 verb

1
slummed, slum·ming.
- : to visit slums, especially from curiosity.
- : to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status.

Examples

Until recently, Dashrath shared a common address with everyone around her—that of the slum itself.

It will add more urban residents by 2050 than any other country, according to a 2014 UN estimate, and its slums are growing faster than its cities.

More than a thousand homes, drainage chambers, community toilets, help centers, and drinking water tanks in the slum now have plus codes.

According to estimates, more than half of Nairobi’s four million people live in informal settlements, sometimes called slums.

The volunteers of the organisation provide a training program under which these women from slums, villages, govt.

Two hundred girls are weaving in and out of dirty alleys in the seaside slum of West Point, Liberia.

More serious still, the slum dwellers face enormous risk from unsafely built environments.

Some argue that these migrants are better off than previous slum dwellers since they ride motorcycles and have cellphones.

Hell, it worked for Tokyo in the 20th—after that city was decimated by Allied bombers, it was basically one big slum.

With a group of young men in the slum he formed Rock Angels, a drag act performing dance, music and drama.

I, followed the fates of my little slum-boys—and what I saw was that Tammany Hall was getting them.

Many are the shocking sights and sad experiences I have witnessed in street and work.