shantytown的意思|shantytown的解释-里氏词典

shantytown ['ʃæntitaun]

n. 棚户区

shantytown

[ noun ]
a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties
<noun.location>

Civil defense officials warned that huge boulders and rain-loosened earth on many hillsides presented an extreme risk of new avalanches, particularly in the crowded shantytown slums that line the hills.
The pair found the victims Thursday in a shantytown home where the group had been participating in a religious rite, but they failed to notify authorities, Nunez said.
Padres, 61, had conducted similar sessions for about the past month at his house in a shantytown east of Tijuana.
Hundreds of Moslem families used the lull to evacuate the shantytown slums and head for the relative safety of villages in predominantly Shiite south Lebanon, where Hezbollah and Amal frequently clash.
The floods washed away hundreds of ramshackle dwellings in the shantytown of Santa Rosa de Lima on the river's edge.
This ramshackle jungle settlement has become a boom town in Peru's illicit cocaine trade, luring thousands from city shantytown or impoverished countryside with a promise of quick fortune from the coca leaf.
President P.W. Botha was greeted by a black choir singing his praises today as he toured a shantytown his government tried several times to destroy.
In an apparent effort to prevent disturbances, the army clamped a curfew on Shati, a beachside shantytown in Gaza City housing 42,000 Palestinians.
Thousands of people roamed the shantytown chanting anti-Israeli slogans and calling for armed struggle.
The protesters began occupying the land May 26. They set up a shantytown and put up barriers to protect themselves from police.
Nine others were wounded in the raid on the teeming shantytown that houses 60,000 Palestinians, the largest among Lebanon's 11 refugee camps.
The pope also traveled to a Santiago shantytown, where slum dwellers clashed with police.
Gun battles continued Tuesday in San Agustin, a shantytown in west Caracas.
President P.W. Botha was cheered and serenaded Friday as he toured a black shantytown once targeted for demolition and now being upgraded following battles that ousted anti-apartheid activists.
Fatah-Uprising is besieging the shantytown of Bourj el-Barajneh on the city's southern edge.
They said guerrillas of Abu Nidal's radical Fatah-Revolutionary Council opened fire on the Fatah fighter, identified as Haitham Diab, when he failed to stop at an one of their checkpoints in the sprawling shantytown.
Page, 29, spends many of his days and nights on the shantytown, three scrapwood huts lashed together atop styrofoam blocks that have been anchored in the middle of the lake that bisects downtown Austin.
In the Villa El Salvador shantytown, soldiers fired over the heads of a stone-throwing mob of 2,000 that gathered in front of the local market, demanding that it open.
Hundreds of people huddled around collections of personal belongings, including refrigerators, furniture and televisions sets, on the sides of a narrow, mud-covered street separating the smoldering shantytown from the petroleum compound.
Seven hundred miles to the south, in the black shantytown of Lawaaikamp, Mr. Schaap, speaking Xhosa, utters almost identical words.
Smoke billowed from several parts of the stricken shantytown on the southeastern fringe of Sidon, provincial capital of south Lebanon, 25 miles from Beirut.
Firefighters said they could not use their firetrucks in the shantytown and they concentrated on preventing the fire from spreading to the oil depot.
Rescuers said they believed at least 20 people were still trapped in the enormous wreckage left by the aircraft, which virtually leveled the small shantytown of Jardim Sentilha outside Guarulhos, 15 miles from Sao Paulo.
Factors in addition to carbon monoxide poisoning may have caused the deaths of 12 people during a religious ceremony at a house in a border shantytown, a doctor said Saturday.
The Norwegian Aid Committee said Cools, 32, a general practitioner, left the Qasimiyeh refugee camp on Saturday, heading for the Rashidiyeh shantytown eight miles to the south.
Fire raged through a shantytown for about two hours Tuesday, destroying 500 huts and killing at least seven people, police said.
Syria has massed 7,500 troops, 100 tanks and 400 armored vehicles around the slums for 12 days and has been threatening to occupy the shantytown.
This is awesome." A Yale University alumnus accused of torching a campus shantytown built to protest apartheid said he'd once worked in South Africa, according to a man who chased him down.
About 10,000 people left homeless by one of the capital's biggest fires in 40 years pitched camp along railroad tracks near their razed shantytown, officials said today.

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