tenement

• n. 房屋；住户，租户；租房子

来自拉丁语 tenementum,领地，房子，所有物，来自 ten-,持有，握住，-ment,名词后缀。后 用于指廉租公寓，可能是来自幽默用法。参照英语名言“风能进，雨能进，国王不能进”。

1. a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

tenement

tenement: see tenant

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" (see tenet). 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 tenament in an earlier sense (especially in Scotland) "large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants" (1690s).

a tenement block

经济住宅街区

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...elegant 19th century tenement buildings.

几幢典雅的 19 世纪公寓大楼

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...the cramped Edinburgh tenement in which Connery grew up.

康纳利小时候居住的位于爱丁堡的狭小公寓

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Nor was he the only one in that tenement yard.

大杂院里的病人并不止于他一个.

汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

She lived in that gloomy tenement a place not fit for swine.

她就住在那幢阴暗的、连猪也不宜住的公寓里.

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The particulars of individual tenement account attached or detached are set out in the list overleaf.

新增或分拆在综合帐目内的个别物业帐目资料详列于背面的附表内.

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Our products are widely used in bathroom and kitchen of villa, hotel and tenement.

公司所生产的产品广泛的应用于家庭、宾馆、别墅等地方.

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They live in a tenement.

他们住在廉价公寓里.

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But in the tenement yard there wasn't a single tree or flower.

但在这个大杂院里,春并不先到枝头上,这里没有一棵花木.

汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

Tigress felt very smug in a tenement yard like this.

就是在个这样的杂院里,虎妞觉得很得意.

汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

Although he was born in a Glasgow tenement, he is now very rich.

尽管他出生在格拉斯哥贫民区的一座楼房里, 现在却很富有.

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Are written the subway walls and tenement halls ". "

已被写在地铁的墙上以及出租公寓的走廊上.

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The residents lived in hastily erected tenement buildings in between factories and slaughterhouses.

这些居民的住所就是在工厂和屠宰场之间仓促修建起来的廉价公寓楼.

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What are the first tenement matesten amendments to the constitution called?

美国的前十条宪法修正案被称作什么?

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In the tenement , although he had lived there ten years, he was more or less unknown.

他虽然在经济公寓里渡过了十个春秋, 但几乎没有人认识他.

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Never would she escape from this tenement courtyard!

她永远逃不出这个大杂院去!

汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

He stood in front of a gloomy tenement house.

面前站着玛尔姬,一个十五岁的小女工.

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They crowded into tenement buildings, and found a living in factories or as street peddlers.

他们挤在廉价的出租屋里过夜, 在工厂劳动或在街头以贩卖谋生.

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They crowded into tenement buildings, and found a living in factories or street peddlers.

他们挤在廉价的出租屋里过夜, 在工厂劳动或在街头贩卖谋生.

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He drove to the tenement and knocked on Igace's door.

他把车子开到公寓大楼,叩响伊格内斯的房门.

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The words of the prophers are Written the subway walls and tenement halls.

先知者的语言,写在地铁的墙上,写在廉价公寓的大厅中.

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In the dimly lit hall of one Charlestown tenement he encountered David Powers.

他在查尔斯敦一幢楼房的灯光暗淡的大厅里遇见了戴维·鲍尔斯.

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By June, the tenement courtyard was completely silent during the day.

到了六月, 大杂院里在白天简直没什么人声.

汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

These apartments are what people see when they visited the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

他们在里面发现了一千多件的物品,这些物品都是属于当时居住在此的居民的.

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Are written the subway walls & tenement halls.

都被写在地铁的墙上 及 出租公寓的走廊上.

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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is one of the smaller museums in New York.

那座东边的挨房博物馆是纽约较小的博物馆中的一个.

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In this tenement yard, having children and dying in childbirth were mentioned in the same breath.

在这杂院里, 小孩的生与母亲的死已被大家习惯的并为一谈.

汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

Are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.

都已写在地铁的墙上和房屋的大厅里.

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They did not want to call them tenement, so they called them apartment buildings instead.

这些人不想再称之为“廉价公寓”, 所以用公寓来代替原先的词语.

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He lives in a tenement block.

他住在一家廉价公寓楼里.

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