shantytown/shanty town 棚户区,贫民窟(在城镇中或近郊)

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shanty town
'shanty town
noun   
an area in or near a town where poor people live in shanties
   棚户区,贫民窟(在城镇中或近郊)

shantytown

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shan∙ty∙town / ˈʃæntɪˌtaun ; ˈʃæntiˌtaʊn /
◙noun [C]
1. a very poor area in or near a town where people live in small houses made from thin sheets of wood, TIN etc
• 〔城镇或其附近的〕贫民区，棚户区

shantytown
\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
1. : a section of a city or town in which the houses are shanties
2. : an entire town consisting mostly of shanties; especially : a poor suburb inhabited by Negroes in South Africa

shanty
shanty / ˈʃænti /
noun
(pl. -ies)
1. a small house, built of pieces of wood, metal and cardboard, where very poor people live, especially on the edge of a big city
   棚屋,简陋小屋(常搭建于城市边缘)
2. (also 'sea shanty) (both BrE) (NAmE chanty, chantey)  a song that sailors traditionally used to sing while pulling ropes, etc.
   水手号子(旧时水手边拉绳索等边唱的歌)


shanty

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shan∙ty / ˈʃæntɪ ; ˈʃænti /
◙noun (plural shanties) [C]
1. a small, roughly built hut made from thin sheets of wood, TIN , plastic etc that very poor people live in
• 〔穷人居住的〕简陋小木屋，铁皮（塑料板）棚屋:
»Workers were living in tents and shanties.
  工人们住在帐篷和棚屋里。
2. also sea shanty a song sung by sailors in the past, as they did their work
• 〔昔日水手劳动时唱的〕号子，船夫号子，船歌


shan·ty
I. \ˈshantē, -aan-, -ain-, -ȧn-, -ti\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Canadian French chantier hut in a lumber camp, shack, from French, lumberyard, shipyard, gantry, from Old French, gantry, from Latin cantherius trellis, rafter, gelding — more at gantry
1. : a small poorly built dwelling usually made of wood : shack
2. : a small crude building for temporary use
3. Australia : bar, pub
II. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
: to live in a shanty
III. adjective
1.
a. : constituting a shanty
  < rough shanty roadside restaurants — A.L.Himbert >
b. : consisting of shanties
  < a shanty native village >
2. : living or having lived in a shanty : of a low social class
< the lower-lower class, the shanty Irish, not the lace-curtain Irish — J.P.Marquand >