They are the poor men living in a garret. 他们就是住在阁楼上的穷人。
An open space under a roof; an attic or a garret. 阁楼,顶楼有屋顶的开阔地;顶楼或阁楼
They are the poor men living in a garret. 他们就是住在阁楼上的穷人。
garret
[ noun ] floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage <noun.artifact>
Garret \Gar"ret\, n. [OE. garite, garette, watchtower, place of lookout, OF. garite, also meaning, a place of refuge, F. gu['e]rite a place of refuge, donjon, sentinel box, fr. OF. garir to preserve, save, defend, F. gu['e]rir to cure; of German origin; cf. OHG. werian to protect, defend, hinder, G. wehren, akin to Goth. warjan to hinder, and akin to E. weir, or perhaps to wary. See {Weir}, and cf. {Guerite}.] 1. A turret; a watchtower. [Obs.]
He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls. --Ld. Berners.
2. That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.
The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome. --Macaulay.
To design it, Mr. Krawczyk hired Jacek Ebert, an artist free-lancing from a Warsaw garret.
The young poet, so beautiful and so talented, driven to swallow arsenic by a callous world, lies dead across his garret bed, his luxurious red hair hanging above a pile of torn manuscript scraps.
Foreign currency donations from Latvian emigres have provided the cluttered Atmoda office in an ancient garret in old Riga with a fax machine and three Apple computers.
Commissions like this one made de Troy a very rich man, as we can see from a portrait he painted of his huge family in their new home, clearly a mansion and no artist's garret, near the Palais Royal.