flophouse
flophouse 英 [ˈflɒphaʊs] 美 [ˈflɑphaʊs]
n. 监狱；廉价的低级住所或旅馆
名词复数:flophouses
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- n. 监狱；廉价的低级住所或旅馆
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1. The pianist, he learned, was in his 40s and living in a flophouse.
他得知这位钢琴家40多岁，住在廉价旅馆里；
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2. The address was a giant old apartment building on Hollywood Boulevard, the kind of place where starlets lived in the ’30s, but now it was the cheapest sort of flophouse.
那是好莱坞星光大道上一座外形高大的老式公寓楼，似乎是30年代小明星们的住处，而如今却是那种最廉价的低级住所。
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3. By now, you're already running from flophouse to flophouse, giving back-alley foot jobs for enough cash to stay alive.
现在，你已经在逃命了，从一家小旅馆换到另一家，偷偷做脚底按摩赚钱为生。
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