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squalor n.1.骯臟,邋遢。2.(道德品質等的)卑劣。3.貧困。

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On a level with the floor on every stairhead there was a low window which resembled a deep , square venthole , while in lanterns fastened to the walls flaring gas jets crudely illuminatcd the surrounding squalor and gave out a glowing heat which , as it mounted up the narrow stairwell , grew ever more intense 每道樓梯的平臺邊,貼近地面都有一扇低矮的窗戶,方方正正地凹進去,像是氣窗。一些懸掛在墻壁上的燈籠,發出煤氣光焰,強烈地照射著這種種貧寒景物,還散發出一股熱氣,向上升騰,并聚積在各層狹窄的螺旋形樓梯下。

So strangely clouded were these refinements by the prison manners and gloom , so spectral did they become in the inappropriate squalor and misery through which they were seen , that charles darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead 監獄的幽暗和監獄的行為奇怪地籠罩了人們優雅的動作,使它在與之不相稱的骯臟和痛苦的環境中顯得不像在人間。查爾斯.達爾內仿佛進入了死人的行列。

Officers arrested a couple , whom they described in a statement as the estate ' s caretakers , living in squalor in one of the chateau ' s outbuildings 員警逮捕到一對情侶,他們在聲明中形容,這對情侶是這間莊園的看守人,住在莊園其中一棟臟亂不堪的附屬建物里。

Instead , scattered villages within cities , often behind walls built to hide their squalor , and old state - owned apartment buildings have filled the gap 分散在城市中的村莊(通常建在墻后來遮掩市區中骯臟的角落)和歸國家所有的老住宅樓反而填補了這個缺口。

In any case , it is a matter of their own personal squalor , and nothing to do with anybody else . however , everybody listens : as i do myself 雖然,大家都在聽著,正和我自己一樣,在十年前,只要普通的廉恥心便足把這種事件窒息。

The choice , for many , is going hungry in the countryside or finding a job while living in squalor in the towns 而對許多人而言,擺在他們面前的選擇要么是在農村過著挨餓的生活,要么就是住在城鎮骯臟的角落并到處尋求工作。

When you spend the greater part of your working life amongst squalor and foul language , you tend to become hard - boiled 如果勞動生活大部分是在骯臟下流話環境中度過的,人就會變得沒有美好情感。

Beijing ' s call on foreigners to get a look at chinese farmers living in squalor is also a sign of china ' s growing self - assurance 北京開放廣大的農村讓外國人參訪,也顯示中國與日俱增的自信。

Teeth , complexions and clothes all evoke the prosperous poland of today more than the squalor and hunger of 1945 牙齒、膚色和著裝,一切都令人想起今日波蘭的繁榮,而非1945年的貧窮與饑餓。

For to ( what ) , after all , is all this squalor , this confusion , this ugliness due but to ( the lack of human virtues ) 追根究底,這齷齪、混亂、丑陋的一面不都歸咎于人性的缺失

In those days , nurses were little more than janitors , and hospitals were pits of squalor and neglect 當時,護士的地位比看門人高不了多少,而醫院又是骯臟不堪無人關懷的地方。

Yet so wasted has this windfall been that most nigerians continue to live in squalor and poverty 然而,此般橫財的大度揮霍仍使得大多數的尼日利亞人繼續過著悲慘貧窮的生活。

If you want to find the key , you will have to crawl through the same squalor that your customers have 如果你想找到鑰匙,你必須像你的客戶一樣爬過同樣骯臟的地方。

Afar , in a reek of lust and squalor , hands are laid on whiteness 近處,在淫蕩和污濁的臭氣中,一雙手放在白凈的肉身上。

Ancestral squalor to it all 一種遺傳性的劣根性

2 squalor and poverty lay behind the city ' s glittering fa ? ade 表面的繁華掩蓋了這座城市的骯臟和貧窮

There is indescribable squalor in those books 那些書簡直污穢不堪。

Is that you must crawl into the same pit of squalor 要你進入你逼顧客們

. . . than “ the squalor and desperation cafe , “ i suppose … … “骯臟而絕望的咖啡館”更合適