Shanty
['ʃæntɪ] or ['ʃænti]
解释:
(a.) Jaunty; showy.
(n.) A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.
(v. i.) To inhabit a shanty.
英格拉姆编辑
解释:
n. a mean dwelling or hut a temporary house: a grog-shop.
n. a song with boisterous drawling chorus sung by sailors while heaving at the capstan or the like—also Chant′y Chant′ie.—n. Shant′yman the leader of such a chorus.
贝茜手打
娱乐性解释:
To dream of a shanty, denotes that you will leave home in the quest of health. This also warns you of decreasing prosperity.
校对:伍德罗
例句:
- Moving far to Sherman's right, he succeeded in reaching the railroad about Big Shanty, and moved north on it. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Let's give 'em a shanty. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- We have never seen ice better preserved through a long and hot summer than in a board shanty with only one thickness of siding, and that full of cracks and crevices. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The quarters was a little sort of street of rude shanties, in a row, in a part of the plantation, far off from the house. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was not his fault if at first some extremely unsound and impermanent shanties were run up on the vacant site. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
校对:马特