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 squalor ['skwɒlә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 肮脏, 贫穷, 不干净



    squalor
    [ noun ]
    sordid dirtiness
    <noun.state>


    Squalor \Squa"lor\ (skw[=a]"l[^o]r), n. [L., fr. squalere to be
    foul or filthy.]
    Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.

    The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere
    wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. --I. Taylor.

    To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes.
    --Dickens.

    1. It hopes that Lottery money and the general public will provide the remainder. The ENO has been quieter about its plans but unless around Pounds 25m is raised soon its early 20th century building could decline into squalor.
    2. "If we fight amongst each other, we will not be able to fight poverty, misery and squalor," said India's Chandra Shekhar, departing from his prepared text.
    3. "How can you justify sending someone in a $50,000 RV down an unpaved road to see the squalor that exists on the reservation?" asks Deb Cottier, executive director of the Chadron Chamber of Commerce.
    4. While some residents are happy to get out, others say they would prefer to stay with the Casbah, squalor and all, as it is.
    5. Mr. Shamir's second-order priority appears to be removing refugee camps in Israel where some Palestinians have been living, often in squalor, since Israel's creation more than 40 years ago.
    6. If the inner-city poor are to be liberated from their squalor, policy makers will have to squarely face the need to restructure poverty programs so as to discourage persistent immobility.
    7. She and Father Joe maintain that there is less alienation and a more village-like atmosphere in Klong Toey's ramshackle squalor than in the massive concrete tenements to which government officials would like the slum dwellers relocated.
    8. Teachers demonstrate against the inferior black education system, township residents march against high rents and community squalor, prison warders strike over poor treatment and segregation in the prison administration.
    9. With the rapidity that can only occur in drama or opera, he takes her away from the squalor of the bar, spends the night with her, and marries her.
    10. The state includes everything from opulent and middle-class suburbs to areas such as Chalco and Nezahualcoyotl where millions of rural newcomers live in unspeakable squalor without water or electricity.
    11. In Amman, 35,000 people are camped amid squalor at two auto exhibition halls.
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