favelas

favelas

美 [fəˈvelə] 　英 [fə'velə]

• n.〈外〉(巴西城市近郊的)贫民窟[区]
• 网络贫民区；法维拉；来斯

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英汉解释

n.	1. 〈外〉(巴西城市近郊的)贫民窟[区]

英英解释

n.	1. a poor area of a town in Brazil where the houses are in very bad condition

例句

The police station in Cidade de Deus is one of eight, known as UPPs or Pacifying Police Units, set up in Rio's favelas since late 2008.

位于上帝之城的派出所，是自2008年底起在里约热内卢贫民窟设立的八个镇暴警察单位（UPPs）之一。

More useful would be to use the next seven years to coax the violent young men of the favelas to take up sport, or to get construction jobs.

更好的作法将是利用今后七年劝导贫民窟的暴力年轻人从事运动，或者找到建设工作。

What seems new is that the residents of the favelas themselves seem to be welcoming the police.

贫民窟本身的居民开始变得欢迎警察光临，似乎是从来没有过的新鲜事。

Today, similar earthly infernos can be found all over the emerging world: from Brazil's favelas to Africa's shanties.

今天，在所有的新兴市场上我们都能找到相似的人间地狱：从巴西的favelas到非洲的shanties。

Unlike the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where gun-toting adolescents rule, the poor parts of Contagem were not abandoned by the state.

同里约日内卢的贫民区不同，里约那里是持枪青少年的统治，康塔根的贫困地区则还没有被州政府放弃。

Even though barely a dozen of the hundreds of favelas have been reclaimed so far, the drug lords are clearly already feeling the pinch.

即使迄今已收回上千个贫民窟的掌控权，毒枭也清楚感受到自己危在旦夕。

Many in the favelas have long feared and hated the police at least as much as they do the traffickers.

住在贫民窟的很多居民长期以来惧怕并讨厌警察，至少如同他们惧怕并讨厌毒品贩子一样。

Though there is still plenty of drug-dealing in pacified favelas it is discreet and the dealers no longer carry heavy weapons.

虽然在保安警察驻守的贫民窟毒品交易仍时有所闻，但已经低调很多，那些毒枭不再携带重装武器。

And Rio has another big enemy: militias run by retired and off-duty police and fire officers now control as many favelas as the drug gangs.

而且，里约热内卢还有另一个大敌︰退休和休假警察与遭解职的官员现在组织民兵，他们控制的贫民窟数量与贩毒帮派一样多。

Some of the new money is also going on installing the paving, lighting and sewerage that turn favelas into neighbourhoods.

部分新玻的款项也正用于贫民窟的铺路、照明和排水系统，要让贫民窟升格为人见人爱的芳邻。

In Rio, the authorities moved physically to wipe out favelas (slums)that had grown up on the hills separating middle-class neighbourhoods.

在里约热内卢，政府当局强行清除了建在山上、隔开中产阶级居住区的“favelas”（贫民窟）。

There may be some synergy between peacekeeping and security in favelas (slums).

维和同贫民区的安保工作大概已形成了一种协同作用。

My teammates made fun of me because they are saying I left the favelas of Rio De Janeiro only to get robbed in Italy!

我的队友开我的玩笑，他们说我离开里约热内卢的贫民区，就是为了来意大利被抢劫的！

The public prosecutor has even compared Marseille to the favelas of Rio.

公共检察官甚至把马赛与里约热内卢的贫民窟相提并论。

For decades many of the city's favelas have been ruled by drug traffickers or militias.

数十年来，里约热内卢的贫民窟一直被毒品贩子或持枪民兵统治。

But the political will to extend the rights and protections of citizenship to the favelas now exists, perhaps for the first time ever.

然而，延长贫民窟公民权利和保护的政治意图现在就已存在，或许是史上头一遭。

This was introduced in schools in Brazil's favelas last month.

上个月这一活动被引入了巴西贫民区的学校。

Brazil spends trillions and can't solve the problem of the favelas.

巴西耗资无数，仍然无法解决贫民窟的问题。

But this is Paraisopolis, one of Sã o Paulo's notorious crime-infested favelas (slums).

不过，这是Paraisopolis，圣保罗臭名昭著犯罪猖獗的棚户区（贫民窟）。

But Rio is undergoing a renaissance, one which even holds out hope for the 1m of the city's 6m residents who live in favelas.

但是，里约热内卢正准备东山再起，甚至这是全市六百万居民其中一百万住在贫民窟者的希望。

I go into the favelas, and give them something to lose, electricity, running water, school room for their kids.

我深入贫民窟，让他们有“鞋”——电、水力、小孩的上学。

But the kicker is this: affluent people are overwhelmingly of European ancestry alone, but the favelas are home to people of mixed race.

但是反对意见是：富裕者绝大多数是单一的欧洲血统，而棚户区是混血人的家。