slums

slums

美 [slʌm] 　英 [slʌm]

• n.贫民窟；棚屋区
• v.过简朴生活
• 网络贫民区；贫窟；平民窟

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But a flush loo is no option in slums where rain is the only form of flushing.

但冲水式厕所在贫民窟里不太实际，那里只有雨水才能起冲刷作用。

Throughout the novel, Dickens enlarges on this theme, describing slums so decrepit that whole rows of houses are on the point of ruin.

整个小说，狄更斯扩大这个主题，描述贫民窟，使整个排破旧的房屋都在点毁掉。

Charlie Chaplin, the world famous actor , was born in London in 1889 and grew up in the slums of London.

查理·卓别林，世界著名的演员，1889年出生于伦敦和成长在伦敦的贫民窟。

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

我得到了基督的呼唤，放弃一切跟随他来到贫民窟，在最贫困的地方，作他的仆人。这是命令。

These, the bank thinks, are the real problems of urbanisation, not the multiplication of slums or congestion.

世行认为这是城市化的真正问题，而不是贫民区成倍增加，抑或人口拥挤。

The MIT researchers found that as many as one-third more businesses had opened in slums which had a microcredit branch.

麻省理工的研究者们发现三分之一以上的商业都开设在拥有小额贷款银行支行的贫民窟。

Public housing is in good shape; no slums are allowed to fester. Soup kitchens do exist, but foreign labourers are often first in line.

的确，极端贫困是很难出现在新加坡的，公共住房形势好，不会滋生贫民窟，流动厨房（粥铺）总是有，外来劳工排成行。

In a meaningless battle in the slums where they lived, the gang leader had slit the throat of a boy he thought was too slick .

在他们居住的贫民窟进行的那场毫无意义的战斗中，黑帮老大把一个他认为太圆滑的男孩的喉咙切断了。

Among other things, Mr. Eagle has used the data to determine how slums can be a catalyst for a city's economic vitality.

作为研究工作的内容之一，伊格尔利用这些数据去评估贫民窟对于激发一座城市的经济活力能起到怎样的催化作用。

My god, if you think of the way in which they've destroyed parts of cities under the rubric of eliminating slums.

我的天哪，只要想想他们为消除贫民窟、破坏城市的做法吧。

Still, the demolition of arrival-city slums is all too common a practice in such cities as Mumbai and Manila.

尽管如此，在诸如孟买和马尼拉等落脚城市，贫民窟被拆迁的做法仍很常见。

And George Best learned the tricks that made him famous by bouncing the ball off a wall in the slums of Belfast.

乔治贝斯特在贝尔法斯特的贫民窟里对着一堵墙踢球的时候学会了使他一举成名的踢球动作。

Slums and squatter settlements are the result of people being priced out of legal land for housing, and housing markets.

造成贫民窟和擅自居住者的居住区的原因是住宅和住房市场合法土地定价过高。

He cites one study which showed that in west Africa malaria tends to spread faster in suburban neighbourhoods than in cities and slums.

他引述了一项研究结果，该研究表明在西非，疟疾在郊区的传播比在城市和贫民窟的传播要快。

Without a daily police presence, city services suffered, and doctors and other professionals began to shun the slums for safety reasons.

没有了警察的日常出面，市政变得糟糕，医生和其他的专业人士因为安全因素逃离了贫民窟。

Like the "Slumdog Millionaire" actors, Syed was also plucked from Mumbai's teeming slums and catapulted to global stardom.

《贫民窟的百万富翁》里的童星们一样，他也是从孟买的贫民窟里走出，一跃成为国际明星。

Violence has erupted periodically in the slums of Algiers and other cities for at least two years.

阿尔及耳和其他城市的贫民窟至少两年会周期性地发生暴力活动。

There has been a steady population shift from rural to urban areas, causing large urban slums and unemployment.

农村人口一直在不断地流入城市，造成失业和大规模的贫民区。

"We will need more than advertising to light up the slums, " she said.

和帮助贫民窟的照明这种广告比起来，我们需要更多。

The organization also provides training to its employees and supports schools in the slums in which many of its employees live.

这个组织还为员工提供培训，并且支援员工们居住的贫民窟里的学校。

It has made itself a home in the wild forest of our great cities, amid the rank and choking vegetation of slums!

它在我们许多大城市的野林中安了家，就在贫民窟发臭的、令人窒息的草木之中！

The capitalist private ownership society people's able to destroy the most don't underworld, prostitutes, drugs, slums and high crime rate.

资本主义私有制社会无法消灭人民群众最不要的黑社会、娼妓、毒品、贫民窟和高犯罪率。

An illegitimate child, she grew up in the slums of Naples during wartime in dire poverty.

她是一个私生女，战争期间在那不勒斯极度贫困的贫民窟里长大。

Who was he? A lowlife from the slums of Alexandria who hangs out with the likes of Ptolemy?

他是谁？一个来自亚历山大贫民窟的，象托勒密一样的卑劣的人？

Even the police, one of the most brutal forces in the world, are starting to win praise for pacifying bandit-ridden slums.

即使是里约州警，全球最慓悍的警力之一，亦因弭平盗匪横行的贫民窟而开始赢得赞赏。

The following year the Vatican gave her permission to leave Loretto and she set up her first school in the slums of Calcutta.

隔年，梵谛冈教廷允许她离开乐瑞陶修女会，在加尔各答的贫民窟开办第一所学校。

Slums 'are economic springboards, ' he said.

他说，贫民窟是一块经济跳板。

Then in 1964, Brazil passed a law to encourage landless peasants to leave the slums and develop the interior.

直到1964年，巴西通过了一项法律，鼓励没有土地的农民走出贫民窟，自主开发国内的土地。

Still, the area remains poor and many residents dwell in slums, according to a report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

据联合国人居署报告，加尔各答仍然贫穷，许多人居住在贫民窟。

Such rapid and uncontrolled growth helped to turn parts of cities into slums.

这种快速、毫无节制的增长使城市的某些地方变成了贫民窟。

it may be the next Reba people, in slums, dirty streets, tattered clothes next to their high-pitched singing the song of life.

它或许是下里巴人，在贫民窟肮脏的街道上、破烂的衣衫旁，高亢地唱着生命的歌。

He was actually living in the Kibera slums when his father called him and told him about Artemisia and the value-add potential.

当他爸告诉他青蒿和它的增长潜力时他还是一位住在Kibera贫民窟的人。

However, this will be clearly unable to account for the vandalism prevailing among some slums or ghettoes.

然而这种假设无法解释贫民窟中普遍的恶意行为。

It is a vow that will be hard to keep, except as part of a broad effort to improve life in the world's expanding slums.

这是个很难遵守的誓言，除非将其纳入到努力改善世界上不断扩大的贫民窟的贫民的生活的项目中去。

The health ministry fears that if cholera gets a foothold in the capital, the urban slums are likely to be hardest hit.

卫生部长担心一旦霍乱疫情在首都立足，城市里的贫民窟将受到严重的打击。

As policemen beat him with a bamboo stick to shoo him and his family away, his home in Mumbai's slums was swiftly demolished.

警察用竹棍打他，把他和她的家人赶走，他在孟买贫民窟的家就这样轻易的被毁了。

Modern urban planning and redevelopment arose in response to the disorder and squalor of the slums created by the Industrial Revolution.

工业革命所形成的贫民区脏乱现象，引发了现代的城市规画和改建运动。

The game has attracted many players from Brazil's slums, who see soccer as a ticket out of poverty.

它吸引了许多贫民成为球员因为他们足球当作是脱离贫困的途径。

Use some of that money to wipe out these slums and put America back to work!

将一部分开支用于消除这些贫民窟，让美国重新运转！

Visitors to the slums were clearly shocked to see so many families living in want.

到过贫民窟的人看到有这么多的家庭生活在贫苦之中显然震惊不已。

I should throw away my pen and move into the slums, where I could relieve poverty better and more efficiently than with a poisonous book.

我应该扔掉我的钢笔，搬到贫民窟去，我才能更好地缓解贫穷的疼痛，这比对着一本讨厌的书更有效果。