squalid的意思|squalid的解释-里氏词典

squalid ['skwɒlid]

a. 污秽的, 肮脏的, 悲惨的, 可怜的, 卑劣的

squalid

[ adj ]

morally degraded

<adj.all>

a seedy district

the seamy side of life

sleazy characters hanging around casinos

sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls

the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils

the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal

foul and run-down and repulsive

<adj.all>

a flyblown bar on the edge of town

a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town

squalid living conditions

sordid shantytowns

Squalid \Squal"id\ (skw[o^]l"[i^]d), a. [L. squalidus, fr.
squalere to be foul or filthy.]
Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

Uncombed his locks, and squalid his attire. --Dryden.

Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large
capitals. --Macaulay.

But in recent days, small groups of journalists have been taken to High Island in an apparent attempt by the government to put the best face on the camps, where squalid living conditions have been the subject of harsh international criticism.
Since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, thousands of foreign workers have been trying to flee the country and are waiting in the squalid camps for transportation home.
Relief officials closed the squalid Shaalan I border camp on Thursday and transferred about 5,000 Indians to an organized tent city near Azraq, 50 miles east of the capital Amman.
The story of his reception illuminates a squalid corner of Allied conduct during the war. Karski's promising diplomatic career was cut short by war service.
More than 50,000 Vietnamese who fled to Hong Kong by boat are languishing in squalid camps throughout the territory.
Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia and gave up a comfortable life as a convent teacher to live and work in Calcutta's squalid slums.
William Haller, who lives on the same street, said he was aware of the squalid conditions inside the house.
Scenes from Cairo's poor and squalid quarters have been transported to this Mediterranean city.
Nowell helped the woman to her home, a squalid, tiny apartment.
Caravans of crowded buses, their roofs piled high with the last possessions of shattered lives, evacuated the remaining residents of Jordan's most crowded and squalid refugee camp.
Here, an estimated 200,000 people live mainly in squalid, one-room hovels made of scrap tin and boards, with dirt floors and no plumbing or lights.
The Maranon is a dingy dream factory, as squalid as the slums its young boxers are fighting to leave.
But though impoverished, Costa Rica is far from squalid.
Most have been forced to make do in Shaalan I and the two other squalid camps between the Jordanian and Iraqi checkpoints.
Tracing missing persons is just one of an array of social services the church-in-uniform has taken on in a history of good works that began with a soup kitchen in London's squalid East End in 1866.
The squalid revelations dribble out like a chemical leak, sliming up every page.
"Any Moslem who willingly abides by the rules of a non-Moslem state is a traitor," says a Hezbollah slogan daubed on walls in the squalid slums of south Beirut.
The cramped, squalid detention centers have been particularly tense since Dec. 12, when 51 boat people were whisked onto an airplane by security forces and forcibly repatriated to Hanoi.
Eleanor Roosevelt defended the book in her weekly column, and in 1940 a congressional committee held hearings in Oklahoma to find out whether the squalid conditions and brutal treatment of the workers recounted in the novel were accurate.
We never left the system!" For $1, the three young men got a chance to view the sunrise over Queens, taste pastry under Columbus Circle and enter a squalid ladies' room in Coney Island.
Those squalid slums were the bedrock of support for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who died a year ago.
The largest, most squalid campsite was across the street from Casa Romero.
The real beneficiaries of federal housing programs, after all, aren't the poor who end up still living in squalid, crime-infested neighborhoods, but the people HUD pays large sums to build and run the housing.
There were also growing fears that tuberculosis may have been prevalent on the vessel. Initial pictures released by the US Coast Guard of the freighter's interior suggested that conditions had been extremely cramped and squalid.
And in California and Florida, farm workers sometimes live in squalid, dangerous conditions _ 21 people in one trailer, 11 sharing a cinder block room with an outdoor toilet.
Consider Akwa Karfath Kawal, a woman of African descent who fled hunger in her hometown of Aweil and ended up in a squalid refugee area just outside Muglad in western Sudan.
Of Marion Meade's biography of Dorothy Parker he describes the writing as 'shoddy, the mood sour and the subject resolutely unsympathetic', though that does not prevent him delving into the squalid intricacies of the Algonquin world.
In Beirut's southern suburbs, war damage and poverty create squalid vistas of crumbling masonry and rotting trash. Even by this city's harsh standard, it is a bleak and broken place.

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