an area of a city that is very poor and where the houses are dirty and in bad condition 贫民窟;棚屋区 a slum area 贫民区 city/urban slums 城市贫民窟 She was brought up in the slums of Leeds. 她是在利兹的贫民区长大的。 slum clearance schemes 贫民窟清理计划 a plan to rehouse slum dwellers 安置贫民窟居民的计划 a kid from the slums 来自贫民窟的儿童 born in the slums of East London 出生在伦敦东区的贫民窟
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crowded
- overcrowded
- teeming
- …
- clear
- demolish
- live in
- …
- conditions
- area
- district
- …
- from the slums
- in a/the slums
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally slang, in the sense ‘room’): of unknown origin.