tenement
tenement 英 [ˈtenəmənt] 美 [ˈtɛnəmənt]
n. 房屋；住户，租户；租房子
名词复数:tenements
- A tenement is a run-down apartment building. The tenements in Old New York were barely safe enough to live in — fire hazards, no air circulation, and no bathrooms, either.
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- n. 房屋；住户，租户；租房子
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1. He stood in front of a gloomy tenement house.
在伦敦的东头，他站在一家阴暗的公寓门前。
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2. The scene inside was like a tenement, bodies on top of bodies, music and laughter and radio broadcasts, the ripe, pungent smell of body odor in the tropics.
车厢里的景象像是屋里，身体挨着身体，音乐声，笑声，无线电广播声，充斥着人体在热带发出的成熟刺激的气味。
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3. “Good grief!” he cried at the sight of a carved brownstone tenement plaque of Abraham Lincoln, which had once been a centerpiece in the sculpture garden.
他不禁叫道，目光凝固在一方镶在廉租屋上的褐砂石饰板中雕着的亚伯拉罕·林肯上，那石板曾经是雕塑园里的中心展览品。
- tenement (n.) c. 1300, "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings,) from Anglo-French (late 13c.), Old French tenement "fief, land, possessions, property" (12c.), from Medieval Latin tenementum "a holding, fief" (11c.), from Latin tenere "to hold," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch." The meaning "dwelling place, residence" is attested from early 15c.; tenement house "house broken up into apartments, usually in a poor section of a city" is first recorded 1858, American English, from tenement in an earlier sense (especially in Scotland) "large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants" (1690s).
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