单词 | shack |
释义 | shack Buildingsshack1 /ʃæk/ noun [countableC] 1 TBBa small building that has not been built very well 简陋的小屋,棚屋 a tin shack 铁皮棚屋 Examples from the Corpus shack• An old woman emerges from a shack behind the cantina, buttoning up a torn housedress.• He lives in a shack with his wife and four children.• I've seen the homes they live in-mud-floored shacks with no sanitation or direct access to running water.• A girl of about sixteen stands in the doorway of the little shack that is connected to the store.• It is a community of tar-paper shacks and few prospects.• They lived in a one-room shack.• It was small, but seemed surprisingly well stocked for a peasant's shack.• Brucha has lived in his off-trail shack for 14 years, and in that time, he has made it his own.• The run-down villas and cement footpaths give way to dusty tracks and wooden shacks. shack2 verb 1 shack up phrasal verbphr v informal LIVE WITH somebodyto start living with someone who you have sex with but are not married to – used to show disapproval 同居〔含贬义〕 with She had shacked up with some guy from Florida. 她和一个佛罗里达人同居了。 be shacked up Is she shacked up with anyone? 她是不是和谁同居了? (1800-1900) Perhaps from shackly “likely to fall down” ((19-20 centuries)), or from Mexican Spanish jacal “small building”, from Nahuatl xacalli |
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