shanties

英 [ˈʃæntiz]

美 [ˈʃæntiz]

n.  棚屋，简陋小屋(常搭建于城市边缘); 水手号子(旧时水手边拉绳索等边唱的歌)
shanty的复数

柯林斯词典

• (穷人居住的)简陋的小屋，棚屋
  Ashantyis a small rough hut which poor people live in, built from tin, cardboard, or other materials that are not very strong.
• N-COUNT (过去水手劳动时唱的)船夫曲，水手号子,船歌
  Ashantyis a song which sailors used to sing while they were doing work on a ship.
  1. ...one of my father's favourite sea-shanties.
     我父亲最喜爱的船夫曲之一

双语例句

• The shanties are built onto the hillsides.
  简陋小屋多建于山坡处。
• Fully 30% of the poor could not even afford access to illegal shanties.
  足足有30%的贫困人口甚至连非法窝棚都住不起。
• She walked east along Van Buren Street through a region of lessening importance, until it deteriorated into a mass of shanties and coal-yards.
  她顺着凡布仑街朝东走，经过一个不太热闹的区域，后来变成大批的矮屋和煤栈。
• A few shanties sprawl in the weeds.
  杂草丛中零零落落地歪着几所棚屋。
• A lot of those shanties were burned. a couple of men were killed.
  有很多木屋被烧毁，有几个被杀。