slum的意思|slum的解释-里氏词典

slum [slʌm]

n. 贫民窟

vi. 访问贫民区

[化] 润滑油渣

slum
slummed, slumming

[ noun ]

a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions

<noun.location>

[ verb ]

spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive

<verb.social>

attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century

Slum \Slum\ (sl[u^]m), n. [CF. {Slump}, n.]
1. A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a
poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any
low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the
plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
--Dickens.

2. pl. (Mining) Same as {Slimes}.

Slum \Slum\ (sl[u^]m), v. i.
To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for
purposes of study, etc. Also called {go slumming}. [Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

In the Chapellin neighborhood of Caracas, an elderly woman died in her apartment from a wild bullet fired during gunbattles between army units and residents of a nearby slum, said eyewitnesses.
"Popular theater is more Brazilian than anything we've seen," said Luiz Mendonca, who has directed slum theater groups as well as conventional plays.
The newspapers quoted police as saying Cantoral and the woman, whose identity was not released, were seized by gunmen in a car and brought to Canto Grande, a Lima slum.
By the mid-1940s 'plotland' had become a rural slum, lacking proper roads, sewage or water supply.
Brazilian police were poised to charge 31 police officers and two other people in connection with last month's massacre of 21 people in a Rio de Janeiro slum, officials said.
She has bitter memories of the Philadelphia slum in which she was raised, where she says the same pattern of fires, abandonment and flight was exploited by developers who moved in and bought up land at depressed prices.
The Maranon (Spanish for cashew tree) is the heart of the neighborhood, an aging, densely-packed slum built at the turn of the century to warehouse workers digging the nearby Panama Canal.
Rio's slum life, however, is an improvement for some.
Throughout the city, army trucks and volunteers helped transport slum dwellers from precarious hillside homes to temporary shelters in schools, churches and public buildings.
Crime and violence, often drug-related, are on the rise, and some officials say a type of "civil war" already exists between the traditionally complacent slum dwellers and the shrinking middle and upper classes.
"I know just because you're born in the slum doesn't mean the slum is born in you, and you can rise above it," he said. "Pull your weight.
"I know just because you're born in the slum doesn't mean the slum is born in you, and you can rise above it," he said. "Pull your weight.
Because Noriega's headquarters was located in a slum section of the city, most of those left homeless are poor, said Maj. Allan Wiltshire, who runs the Salvation Army office.
UNI said the victims lived in slum localities which were the worst affected in the deluge Thursday night.
She is scheduled to visit programs on education, slum improvement, immunization and income generation for poor women, said United Nations officials.
One of the government's announced reforms would allow the people of this slum _ and those in millions of shacks and slums throughout the country _ to buy a building lot.
City Attorney James Hahn said Sharma faces prosecution in eight other slum cases.
The seaside slum is a stronghold of support for Aristide, and many residents blamed his opponents for the delay in distributing ballots and ballot boxes.
Residents of Tepito, a scrappy inner-city slum, were glad to oblige.
So Father Joe, as he is known in this slum neighborhood on the edge of downtown San Diego, is working in his pragmatic way not to eradicate homelessness, just to manage it.
He was elected to represent a sprawling slum district in Karachi.
Garbage had not been collected in some slum areas for the past three months because of a dispute over which municipal agencies are responsible.
Offences range from the razing of a Lagos slum in 1990 which left thousands of families homeless, to preventing a civil rights lawyer from attending last October's Commonwealth conference in Harare.
The protests included the stoning of Pinochet's motorcade as it traveled through a Santiago slum.
They also claim more public projects have been completed than under the shah and more has been done for the "mostathafeen" (deprived), the millions of slum dwellers and peasants who formed the bedrock support for Khomeini.
Last October, a clandestine landfill created by a private construction company collapsed on the Nova Republica slum in Sao Paulo.
Several sticks of dynamite, two assault rifles and a large bag of marijuana were found stashed on the roof of the women's home in the Port-au-Prince slum of Bel-Air.
In Lima, police on Thursday reported 305 people were arrested this week in El Agustino slum in anti-insurgency sweeps.
The pope also traveled to a Santiago shantytown, where slum dwellers clashed with police.
Police have also raided slum cities, detaining hundreds of people suspected of criminal activities. Officials have also seized property belonging to individuals and companies linked to Banco Latino.

您正在访问的是
中国词汇量第二的英语词典
更多精彩，登录后发现......

2005 - 2024 Dict.li Online Dictionary

验证码
用户名
密　码
	注册