shanty

noun

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

1. (穷人居住的)简陋的小屋，棚屋
   A shanty is a small rough hut which poor people live in, built from tin, cardboard, or other materials that are not very strong.
2. N-COUNT (过去水手劳动时唱的)船夫曲，水手号子,船歌
   A shanty is a song which sailors used to sing while they were doing work on a ship.
   1. ...one of my father's favourite sea-shanties.
      我父亲最喜爱的船夫曲之一

1. Many people have been forced to live in squalid shanty towns near the factories where they work.
   很多人被迫住在他们所工作的工附近肮脏的棚户区内。
2. The census was also criticized by some local politicians for failing to count many people in shanty housing, particularly in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
   当地的一些政治家还批评这次的人口普查没有把那些住在贫民窟的人，特别是那些住在库尔德东南地区的人计算在内。
3. And it is the view I have heard on sidewalks and in taxi cabs, in the marble halls of ministries, and in run down shacks of shanty towns.
   我在许多地方都曾听到这个观点，包括在人行道上、在出租车内、在政府部委的大理石会议厅内、在棚户区破门的棚屋中。
4. I've heard that there is a bully staying at a shanty by the woods.
   我听说在森林的小屋子里有个杀手。
5. Lindiwe is28 and lives in a shanty town in southern Africa.
   Lindiwe今年28岁，生活在非洲南部一个贫穷的小镇上。
6. Problems in the Management of Shanty Town Reform and Countermeasure Research
   抚顺市棚改社区管理存在问题及对策研究
7. After the shanty town was torn down, these residents moved into good houses.
   棚户区拆迁后，这些居民终于住上了好房子。
8. They live in dormitories, shanty towns or other temporary housing and they have little stake in the new cities they have helped to build.
   他们住在集体宿舍、棚户区或其它临时住房，在自己亲身参与建设的新城市中，几乎没有获得任何利益。
9. A trip through the shanty town brought home to me just how poor the people are.
   棚户区之行使我深切地感到那里的人民何等的贫穷。
10. There they huddle, migrants in the favelas and barrios of Latin america, in shanty towns in africa, in those horrifying encampments one sees on the outskirts of Calcutta and bombay.
    在那里，他们作为移民拥挤在拉丁美洲的贫民窟和城市的郊外，在非洲简陋的村镇里，在一些你可以在加尔各答和孟买郊区看到的那些可怕的难民营里。
11. "Over the past few decades the disease has spread dramatically," says da Silva, noting in particular the toll it has taken on the urban poor living in the shanty towns of Asia and Latin America.
    daSilva说，“过去几十年来，该疾病严重蔓延”，尤其值得注意的是，该疾病对亚洲和拉丁美洲城镇棚户区贫穷人口造成了巨大影响。
12. Opposite a small shanty town in Algiers, Chinese labourers in hard hats push wheelbarrows of cement and dig holes for fence posts.
    在阿尔及利亚首都阿尔及尔附近一个贫穷小镇的对面，中国工人戴着安全帽，有的推着装满水泥的手推车，有的正在挖坑，以便竖起立柱安装围栏。
13. In bombay, 3 million people are squeezed into such shanty towns, in the African cities of Bogata and kinshasa, 60 percent of the citizens live in them; in Addis ababa, 79 percent.
    在孟买，300万人挤进这些棚户区，在非洲城市博加特和金沙萨，60%的居民住在贫民窟里；在亚的斯亚贝巴，达到79%。
14. By and by we were come from the tent to this lumber shanty.
    不知不觉我们从帐篷搬进了小木屋。
15. In the shanty opposite the construction site, residents complain about the difficulties of finding work and the challenges thrown up by life in their small, sparselyfurnished houses.
    在建筑工地对面的那个贫穷小镇，居民们抱怨寻找工作时困难重重，而生活在几乎没什么家具的狭小房子里，也给他们带来很多挑战。
16. Investigation of the Living Condition of Migrant Workers in Shanty Towns& Take the Situation in Changsha as Example
    棚户区进城务工人员生存状况研究&以长沙市为例
17. In this Friday, Aug.7,2009 photograph, Hira Lal, who has lost the ability to move and hear, lays on a makeshift bed outside his shanty in Bhopal, India.
    在这个星期五，2009年8月7日的照片，希拉拉尔，谁失去了行动的能力和听到的，就奠定了他在外面印度博帕尔简陋的简易床铺上。
18. His childhood was spent in a shanty.
    他的童年是在一个简陋小屋里度过的。
19. But the private sector can tackle part of it: the shanty towns and housing needs that spring up around industrial projects outside of cities.
    不过，私营部门有能力解决掉这个问题的一部分，即城郊工业项目周边涌现的棚户区和住房需求。
20. She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty.
    她犹豫不定地看着他，看着那间矮棚屋。
21. If the virus is shed via fecal matter, this will be especially significant in areas with poor sanitation, such as crowded shanty towns.
    如果病毒是经排泄物传播，这对于卫生条件较差的地区（如拥挤的贫民窟）而言，影响将非常大。
22. Research on Shanghai Shanty Area Space Change ( 1927-present);
    上海市棚户区空间变迁研究（1927年&至今）
23. Rescuers were searching for survivors in the district, where poor people live in shanty dwellings alongside much more upmarket homes.
    救援人员在该地区寻找生还者，人们生活在简陋的住所，在旁边是更高档的住宅。
24. In 2006, when APM terminals took over, there were shanty towns in the port and vessels had to wait 30 days to berth.
    当2006年接手apm码头时，港口周边尽是些破旧的小镇，船只往往要等上30天才能停泊。
25. I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, an Irishman who worked on the Fitchburg Railroad, for boards.
    我已经向詹姆斯·柯令斯，一个在菲茨堡铁路上工作的爱尔兰人，买下他的棚屋来使用他的木板。
26. How would you characterize a shanty town from that picture?
    你如何根据那张图来说明城市贫民区的特点。
27. I want to quit this shanty.
    我也要离开这烂房子。

noun

1. small crude shelter used as a dwelling

   Synonym:    hovelhuthutchshack

2. a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

   Synonym:    chanteychantysea chantey