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squal·or
skwa lr
词根:squalid
adj.squalid 肮脏的;污秽的;卑劣的
n.squalidness 穷困;肮脏
noun
living conditions that are filthy, or the state of being squalid.The orphaned children were living in squalor before the relief agency was able to help them.
1620年代,“悲惨肮脏的状态或条件”,源自拉丁语 squalor “粗糙,肮脏,污秽”,源自 squalere “变得肮脏”(参见 squalid)。
Latin, from squalēre
The first known use of squalor was in 1621
squalornoun
filthy or degraded conditions resulting from neglect or lack of money
1 Despite its dilapidation and squalor, Maxwell Street had always felt secure and familiar to me.
2 But the squalor was what got under your skin; its smells and sights were what you tried to drink away after your shift.
3 While all this squalor is as unmistakable as a septic wound waved under our noses, there are darker, deeper currents moving within Maupassant's work.
4 The tragic squalor of her demise concluded a life that was essentially comic in its zest, and the songs, by some miracle, seemed to predict the former even as they revelled in the latter.
5 Rembrandt expresses the moral squalor of luxury through a stupefying excess of painterly richness.
6 Harford, an acclaimed economics journalist, isn’t so much extolling squalor as questioning the notion that order is inherently preferable for creative endeavors.
7 He watched as European intellectuals, artists and writers, including those in Ireland, descended into the moral squalor of jingoistic cant to support military adventurism.
8 They seemed to insist on the emotional squalor of single women—and appeared determined to remind us of our reproductive timelines.
9 I’m guessing that not even the most hard-bitten or nostalgic New Yorker would want to travel back to the days when the city was choked with waterfront factories and industrial squalor.
10 Together they scheme and scream, biding and wasting time in a trailer park where a barking pit bull and a blaring television add to the art-directed squalor.
11 Despite its squalor , Trenchtown proved a fertile breeding ground for music.
然而,壕沟城贫民窟的脏乱穷困却成为音乐创作的肥沃土壤.
12 I find public squalor very saddening.
公共场所的肮脏污秽让我感到非常悲哀。
13 He had encouraged Cox to stray extravagantly far from the truth – for example, suggesting Cox make the Johnny Rotten character a Scouser – but later mourned the lack of squalor in the finished picture.
14 Outside the walls, squalor and pollution abound in the streets.
围墙外,肮脏和污染充斥大街。
15 What exists on the stage of the Linda Gross Theater initially appears to be all murk and squalor.
16 What squalor and disorder her sister lived in!
17 Sebastian thrived on organised squalor and considered such niceties as kitchens and bathrooms to be optional luxuries.
18 He was out of work and living in squalor.
他失业了,生活在脏乱不堪的环境中。
19 I leave a place of degradation and squalor, the likes of which I will never experience again.
20 Without diminishing the stark realities of abject squalor Ms. Boo’s agile prose, wry tone and surprising upbeat theatrics are Dickensian in the best sense of that word.
1 肮脏
dirty foul messy filthy murky unclean wretched impure seedy dingy sordid grimy grubby yucky beastly raunchy squalid crusted porcine mucky grotty mangy rascally scuzzy piggish dungy crumby uncleanly hoggish scroungy grouty down-at-heel flea-bitten groaty soapless scungy draggletailed hogly crummy soil filth raunch sordor state mess dirt uncleanliness nasty vile sleazy ratty disreputable manky insanitary grot frowzy sleaze unwashed daggy impurity noisome flyblown slummy fleabitten miserable shabby piggy pokey poky mussy backstair nastily muddily dingily squalidity muck dinginess soilage
2 污秽
dirty foul filthy sleazy squalid muck lousy unclean profane untouchable impure dingy sordid grimy grubby mangy scuzzy Augean swinish feculent scuzz hoggish soapless foully impurely soil filth filthiness dirtiness sordidness beastliness impureness feculence grime begrime nasty sloppy unholy piggish miry mess muddy vile carrion raunchy mucky grot sleaze ordure
3 骯脏
dirty foul shabby unclean unwashed grimy squalid grungy porcine mucky scuzzy piggish miry Augean begrimed frowzy feculent scuzz uncleanly reechy foully dirtily dingily frowzily mangily manginess grunge uncleanness foulness seediness dinginess frowziness
4 贫困
disadvantaged needy impoverished deprived destitute unprivileged starveling necessitous misease want poverty wolf necessity destitution indigence impoverish depauperate out at elbow poverty-striken stricken contracted underprivileged indigent squalid necessitousness squalidity distress
5 邋遢
frompy ongepotchket messy tacky scruffy grubby unkempt raunchy untidy squalid slouchy frumpy dowdy slipshod scuzzy frowsy slatternly sluttish slattern scroungy down-at-heel frumpish daggy warby draggletailed slovenly negligence look like Mag's snatch dirty sloppy ragged disreputable frowzy slobbish sloppily untidily scruffily sloppiness slovenliness scruffiness grungy tatty cruddy flea-bitten muss be get into a state be in into a state ratty scrubby blowzed wild rotten sordid blowzy squalidity dishabille sluttery
6 卑劣
dirty scurvy mouldy scrubby niddering mean small base ugly nasty sneaky shabby wretched despicable cowardly shoddy dastardly contemptible squalid underhand porcine sneaking scummy small-minded scabby low-down scabbed pettifogging verminous currish cheap shabbily meanly ignobly churlishly dirtily littleness dirtiness shabbiness churlishness dastardliness low down low-lived poor sorry insect miserable petty reptile naughty vile beggar lowering unworthy scaly villainous sleazy reptilian scoundrel snide mean-spirited mucky ornery mangy wormy chintzy snifty low miserably squalidity villainy meanness turpitude pettiness abjection poorness vilify
7 悲惨
poor sorry unfortunate tragic unhappy cruel miserable dire pathetic dismal distressing wretched desolate harrowing abject sorrowful forlorn baleful godforsaken piteous distressful direful woful scungy funest lacerant sadly miserably unhappily desolation sordor