shanty
shanty 英 [ˈʃænti] 美 [ˈʃænti]
n. （美）棚屋；下等酒馆；海员号子 vi. 居住于小棚屋
名词复数:shanties
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- n. （美）棚屋；下等酒馆；海员号子
- vi. 居住于小棚屋
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1. Not far from a woman openly smoking crack, an elderly woman sweeps the floor of her plywood shanty.
离一个公开吸毒的女人的不远处，一个老妇人打扫着她的简陋胶合板房子的地板。
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2. A miner (blue and white stripes) drinks as others gamble in a shanty settlement in the mining town of Jwaneng.
一个矿工（蓝白条相间的那个）与其他在珠瓦纳一个矿镇上的人一起合住一间棚屋。
- shanty (n.1) "rough cabin," 1820, from Canadian French chantier "lumberjack's headquarters," in French, "timberyard, dock," from Old French chantier "gantry," from Latin cantherius "rafter, frame" (see gantry). Shanty Irish in reference to the Irish underclass in the U.S., is from 1928 (title of a book by Jim Tully).
- shanty (n.2) "sea song," 1867, alternative spelling of chanty (n.).
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