Definition of slum in English:

slum

nounPlural slums slʌmsləm

1A squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.
贫民窟
inner-city slums
the area was fast becoming a slum for the destitute
as modifier slum areas
slum dwellers
Example sentencesExamples
- But these young people are choosing to live in the world's most destitute urban slums, among the poorest of the poor.
- The focus should be on rural areas and urban slums, where illiteracy and poor hygiene will have to be tackled.
- In the majority world many rural people buy and sell in the urban centres as well, and increasingly are being forced to move into urban areas-often into slums or ghettos.
- Begun in April 2003, it is a non-profit organisation with a mission to unleash the potential of the slum, street and orphaned children of urban India.
- According to Richard Franceys, putting water supply on a commercial basis has meant more money to connect the very poorest people in the slums and shanty towns.
- In his later articles, Brown increasingly referred to the urban problems of slums, blighted areas and suburban sprawl.
- In-between each of these districts are the slums, where the poor and destitute mope, hating their lives.
- She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a slum known as the Walled City.
- As well as this lack of opportunity, there seems to be so much violence in the ghettos, in the slums, the project areas, where most of the immigrants have to live.
- As part of the activities of the trust we have started free classes for girl students from local government schools from a nearby slum who come from poor families.
- As you can see, the Red Party has a lot of natural support in inner city slum areas like this.
- It is like an inner-city slum and the street cleaning leaves a lot to be desired.
- The Trust introduced on April 1 a mobile dispensary which will make rounds of slums and localities inhabited by poor sections of society to provide free medical treatment.
- The plague was only finally brought under control in 1666 when the Great Fire of London burned down the areas most affected by plague - the city slums inhabited by the poor.
- As recent experience has shown, what it does do is increase the gap between rich and poor, pulling vast numbers of people away from the land into squalid urban slums.
- There is also a primary school at the premises run by the committee for the poor and slum dwellers in the locality.
- Its control of poor slum areas and inner cities resulted from the chaos that was brought about by the occupation; it was not itself the cause of the chaos.
- However, there is still a large segment of the population which lives in urban slums and poor rural areas without electricity or running water.
- Therefore, I will ensure that urban poor living in slums will get better amenities.
- The appalling social situation in Iran has been highlighted by recent reports of protest marches in working class urban areas and slum districts.
Synonyms
hovel
(slums), ghetto, shanty town
in Brazil favela
Indian jhuggi, jhuggi jhopri, bustee
Canadian informal Cabbagetown
rare rookery
1. 1.1 A house or building unfit for human habitation.
  （不适宜人居住的）房屋（或建筑）
  he moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house
  Example sentencesExamples
  The best home the family of seven can afford is this wood shack in a slum.
  Too many buses are slums on wheels - services provided by people who do not use them for people that they do not care about.
  Have they looked at the social consequences of building tomorrow's slums today and what provisions are being put in place to deal with these in the long term?
  Or we will end up building mansions in the midst of slums."
  But ironically the former slum houses are now sought-after properties following regeneration and the flats have become increasingly unpopular with residents.
  It made my dorm building look like a slum, that was for sure.
  Many city dwellers live in slums and tenement buildings
  It is reasonable to argue that we should not be building today houses that are thermal slums; too cold in winter and too hot in summer.
  Historic houses were being labelled slums just because they were old.
  By-law violations that turn residential buildings into slums are not the only matters the municipal courts will be dealing with.
  What we are building are the slums of the future.
  The area, just five minutes drive south from the luxury dockland apartments and gleaming office blocks in Leeds city centre, is now a mixture of decent semi-detached family houses and rundown terrace slums.
  Its cities combine modern skyscrapers, suburban houses, and impoverished slums.
  Blunkett's conclusion was that ‘if you live in a slum in a high-rise building and you are on your own with three children, the idea of liberty and freedom means nothing’.
  Most poor Hindu women had no inhibitions about working, whether they lived in slums or tenements.
  Steve told Tim it's best to avoid buying glamorous houses, and slums.
  I think that we will live here for maybe 12 months and then move elsewhere leaving the house as a slum and make a start again a little further down the road.
  Three decades on these houses are slums to be demolished and the greenway, as described in your article, is a vandalised yobs' playground full of litter and burned-out cars.
  It is in fact, a concrete jungle where towering high-rises, slums and resplendent Gothic buildings lie next to each other.
  These houses are not slums - Prescott is currently paying up to £200,000 per house - in order to demolish them.
  Synonyms
  shack, shanty, hut, shed, cabin

verbslums, slumming, slummed slʌmsləm

[no object]informal

1Spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes.
〈非正式〉（出于猎奇或为得到救济）过贫民生活
he bought some second-hand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged
Example sentencesExamples
- The New Yorker goes slumming on Avenue Q and has a great time, as everyone does.
- You said you wanted to go slumming, so I picked a place to eat in Greenwich Village.
- Kate could feel speculative glances on her as she rolled down the street and thought, ‘They probably figure I'm slumming, looking for a good time.’
- Doing that among the Madison Square Garden crowd where ritzy ladies sported rhinestone and diamanté ‘W’ pins would be like forcing the country club to go slumming on a nice summer's day.
- But it makes me feel a bit low and dirty, as though I'd been participating in slumming or walking through a madhouse in the 18th Century to laugh at the inmates.
- Played out against a backdrop of the infamous club, their romance develops as we meet the high life and the low life, slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich, mingling with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
- It seems like Pattaya to Thais is like New Orleans is to Americans, great place to visit and go slumming, but you really don't want to live there.
- When I went slumming like this, I wanted to cruise the bad slums.
- To be fair to him, the former Merton Professor's not slumming; he's bought the place and moved right in.
- You're slumming… hanging out with the charity cases, the scholarship scum.
- Imagine - word gets out that the heir to the Stuckley fortune was hitting from the other side of the plate, slumming with friends of Judy, eating her caviar hot, on a dirty plate.
- As I entered the premises, I was instantly engulfed in the warm glow of scores of happy yuppies, slumming aristocrats, homesick business-travelers and a contingent of restaurant critics.
- Obviously the lady was slumming, and more importantly she didn't want anyone to know about it.
- Vanessa ran in circles far more elevated than ours and she was always telling us that when she hung out with us she was slumming.
- Do wealthy Americans simply feel it's more acceptable to go slumming out of sight at the website rather than inside the store?
- Indeed, Sturges' screwball comedy Sullivan's Travels, about a playboy director who goes slumming to experience the life of the common man, was supposedly modelled on his new best friend.
- It would not do to have a Rodgers slumming in show business.
- We're not slumming, we don't look down on you and we're here to have fun, too.
- Kicked out of east-coast prep schools and facing the glum prospect of a military academy, Igby goes slumming in lower Manhattan, but there's a porous border between moneyed respectability and penniless Bohemia.
- Some inmates glare at the camera, assessing the artist, wondering what she is doing slumming on their turf.
1. 1.1slum it Put up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used to.
  将就适应，过简陋生活
  businessmen are having to slum it in aircraft economy class seats
  商人们不得不在飞机经济舱里将就一下。
  Example sentencesExamples
  When visiting eastern Europe, you could decide to forego the usual experience of slumming it out in some cheap hostel, and instead, find a friendly local in whose house you can reside.
  Even by the unhygienic standards of most student digs, this particular house is slumming it.
  Have we got priorities right - or are we slumming it in the name of some spurious vocationalism or management theory?
  Rather, he was a songwriter of rare poise slumming it in the underground because his elliptical songs were too druggy and bitter to attract the mainstream hosannas they deserved.
  Mel of Inveresk Street has slummed it by linking to me, and I've been itching to return the favour.
  Two MMC students and a cinema professor go slumming as they lend character and voice to an expressionist painting set in a conspicuously disreputable French cabaret.
  While she recognizes that her decision to expand her range by appearing in so small-scale a film looks a little calculated - a big name slumming it to establish street cred - Aniston insists that more was at stake than a mere image make-over.
  The British screen icon out-acts everyone and still comes off like a good sport while slumming it in a pea-brained movie.
  The good news is that the cooking is better than average, and you won't be slumming it as the place is extremely comfortable.
  Sounds about right to me - and if it means more posh kids having to slum it at comprehensives, then good.
  It's always a pleasure when a museum slums it with a pop culture show.
  Sources close to the Kennilworth Road club have suggested Valois' real motivation for slumming it was financial.
  Both films have respected older actors slumming it as bad guys.
  If Malowany's been able to keep making music through recent years, it's because he's been slumming away at his day job as a delivery truck driver and funding all his projects through his own hard-earned cash.
  Contrary to the dalliances of the rich - who've lately been slumming it like it's 1979-there's nothing fun or ‘cool’ in wondering when you'll eat next.
  In fact, like Lorenzo, the Tuscan aristocracy liked nothing better than to slum it when it came to gastronomy.
  He was generous with his media time, arrived punctually in a blazer for the toss, and apparently saw fit to slum it in the same five-star hotels as his team.
  Livingston will be slumming it again in the first division next season.
  Critics say he is just a posh boy who enjoys slumming it.
  Where to stay: you don't want to slum it on Capri.
  Instead of giving his character a dose of good ol’ American machismo, Brosnan comes off as a refined Englishman slumming it with a shot of American hooch.

Derivatives

slummer

noun ˈslʌməˈsləmər

The ring-leader of the slummers, a duo of Austrians, is Sebastian.
Example sentencesExamples
- And the scene escalates, people are rising from their chairs, the duly deputized representatives of barroom order show up… and the slummers get bounced right back out into the night.
- He paints a vivid picture of Victorian and Edwardian slummers and the social and sexual politics that impelled their urban journeys.
- These streets are the marketplace for garrulous gamine Eliza, who ekes out a living selling flowers to wealthy slummers.
- It is in some sense surprising that a story with the potential to discipline literary slummers should find its way into a magazine that catered to them.
- This magazine isn't for the New Yorker, it's for the slummer.
- The wealthy aren't invited, since nobody wants it thrown out of whack by a bunch of elegant slummers.
- But by evening it transformed into a seductive siren, luring sailors and slummers into a dangerous milieu of opium dens, crimping joints, saloons, brothels and gambling houses.
- I know people will call me a slummer for saying that, but I know that the underclass in American cities are like urban hunters and gatherers.
- The novel describes vividly how reformers, do-gooders and slummers all beat a path to Southwark.
- But when I went there in August I was disoriented by how tame the place felt as the slummers finally overwhelmed the neighborhood.

Origin

Early 19th century (originally slang, in the sense 'room'): of unknown origin.

Rhymes

become, benumb, Brum, bum, chum, crumb, drum, glum, gum, ho-hum, hum, Kara Kum, lum, mum, numb, plum, plumb, Rhum, rhumb, rum, scrum, scum, some, strum, stum, succumb, sum, swum, thrum, thumb, tum, yum-yum

Definition of slum in US English:

slum

nounsləmsləm

1A squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.
贫民窟
Example sentencesExamples
- As well as this lack of opportunity, there seems to be so much violence in the ghettos, in the slums, the project areas, where most of the immigrants have to live.
- Its control of poor slum areas and inner cities resulted from the chaos that was brought about by the occupation; it was not itself the cause of the chaos.
- According to Richard Franceys, putting water supply on a commercial basis has meant more money to connect the very poorest people in the slums and shanty towns.
- In the majority world many rural people buy and sell in the urban centres as well, and increasingly are being forced to move into urban areas-often into slums or ghettos.
- As recent experience has shown, what it does do is increase the gap between rich and poor, pulling vast numbers of people away from the land into squalid urban slums.
- As you can see, the Red Party has a lot of natural support in inner city slum areas like this.
- Therefore, I will ensure that urban poor living in slums will get better amenities.
- In-between each of these districts are the slums, where the poor and destitute mope, hating their lives.
- Begun in April 2003, it is a non-profit organisation with a mission to unleash the potential of the slum, street and orphaned children of urban India.
- She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a slum known as the Walled City.
- However, there is still a large segment of the population which lives in urban slums and poor rural areas without electricity or running water.
- It is like an inner-city slum and the street cleaning leaves a lot to be desired.
- As part of the activities of the trust we have started free classes for girl students from local government schools from a nearby slum who come from poor families.
- In his later articles, Brown increasingly referred to the urban problems of slums, blighted areas and suburban sprawl.
- But these young people are choosing to live in the world's most destitute urban slums, among the poorest of the poor.
- There is also a primary school at the premises run by the committee for the poor and slum dwellers in the locality.
- The Trust introduced on April 1 a mobile dispensary which will make rounds of slums and localities inhabited by poor sections of society to provide free medical treatment.
- The appalling social situation in Iran has been highlighted by recent reports of protest marches in working class urban areas and slum districts.
- The focus should be on rural areas and urban slums, where illiteracy and poor hygiene will have to be tackled.
- The plague was only finally brought under control in 1666 when the Great Fire of London burned down the areas most affected by plague - the city slums inhabited by the poor.
Synonyms
hovel
1. 1.1 A house or building unfit for human habitation.
  （不适宜人居住的）房屋（或建筑）
  Example sentencesExamples
  These houses are not slums - Prescott is currently paying up to £200,000 per house - in order to demolish them.
  The best home the family of seven can afford is this wood shack in a slum.
  Blunkett's conclusion was that ‘if you live in a slum in a high-rise building and you are on your own with three children, the idea of liberty and freedom means nothing’.
  But ironically the former slum houses are now sought-after properties following regeneration and the flats have become increasingly unpopular with residents.
  Its cities combine modern skyscrapers, suburban houses, and impoverished slums.
  Have they looked at the social consequences of building tomorrow's slums today and what provisions are being put in place to deal with these in the long term?
  Steve told Tim it's best to avoid buying glamorous houses, and slums.
  It is reasonable to argue that we should not be building today houses that are thermal slums; too cold in winter and too hot in summer.
  Historic houses were being labelled slums just because they were old.
  Or we will end up building mansions in the midst of slums."
  The area, just five minutes drive south from the luxury dockland apartments and gleaming office blocks in Leeds city centre, is now a mixture of decent semi-detached family houses and rundown terrace slums.
  What we are building are the slums of the future.
  Most poor Hindu women had no inhibitions about working, whether they lived in slums or tenements.
  Too many buses are slums on wheels - services provided by people who do not use them for people that they do not care about.
  It is in fact, a concrete jungle where towering high-rises, slums and resplendent Gothic buildings lie next to each other.
  Three decades on these houses are slums to be demolished and the greenway, as described in your article, is a vandalised yobs' playground full of litter and burned-out cars.
  Many city dwellers live in slums and tenement buildings
  I think that we will live here for maybe 12 months and then move elsewhere leaving the house as a slum and make a start again a little further down the road.
  By-law violations that turn residential buildings into slums are not the only matters the municipal courts will be dealing with.
  It made my dorm building look like a slum, that was for sure.
  Synonyms
  shack, shanty, hut, shed, cabin

verbsləmsləm

[no object]informal

1Spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes.
〈非正式〉（出于猎奇或为得到救济）过贫民生活
he bought some secondhand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged
Example sentencesExamples
- Kicked out of east-coast prep schools and facing the glum prospect of a military academy, Igby goes slumming in lower Manhattan, but there's a porous border between moneyed respectability and penniless Bohemia.
- The New Yorker goes slumming on Avenue Q and has a great time, as everyone does.
- But it makes me feel a bit low and dirty, as though I'd been participating in slumming or walking through a madhouse in the 18th Century to laugh at the inmates.
- We're not slumming, we don't look down on you and we're here to have fun, too.
- Played out against a backdrop of the infamous club, their romance develops as we meet the high life and the low life, slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich, mingling with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
- You're slumming… hanging out with the charity cases, the scholarship scum.
- Doing that among the Madison Square Garden crowd where ritzy ladies sported rhinestone and diamanté ‘W’ pins would be like forcing the country club to go slumming on a nice summer's day.
- You said you wanted to go slumming, so I picked a place to eat in Greenwich Village.
- Do wealthy Americans simply feel it's more acceptable to go slumming out of sight at the website rather than inside the store?
- As I entered the premises, I was instantly engulfed in the warm glow of scores of happy yuppies, slumming aristocrats, homesick business-travelers and a contingent of restaurant critics.
- It would not do to have a Rodgers slumming in show business.
- Obviously the lady was slumming, and more importantly she didn't want anyone to know about it.
- When I went slumming like this, I wanted to cruise the bad slums.
- Imagine - word gets out that the heir to the Stuckley fortune was hitting from the other side of the plate, slumming with friends of Judy, eating her caviar hot, on a dirty plate.
- It seems like Pattaya to Thais is like New Orleans is to Americans, great place to visit and go slumming, but you really don't want to live there.
- Kate could feel speculative glances on her as she rolled down the street and thought, ‘They probably figure I'm slumming, looking for a good time.’
- To be fair to him, the former Merton Professor's not slumming; he's bought the place and moved right in.
- Some inmates glare at the camera, assessing the artist, wondering what she is doing slumming on their turf.
- Vanessa ran in circles far more elevated than ours and she was always telling us that when she hung out with us she was slumming.
- Indeed, Sturges' screwball comedy Sullivan's Travels, about a playboy director who goes slumming to experience the life of the common man, was supposedly modelled on his new best friend.
1. 1.1slum it Put up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used to.
  将就适应，过简陋生活
  businessmen are having to slum it in aircraft economy class seats
  商人们不得不在飞机经济舱里将就一下。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The good news is that the cooking is better than average, and you won't be slumming it as the place is extremely comfortable.
  Two MMC students and a cinema professor go slumming as they lend character and voice to an expressionist painting set in a conspicuously disreputable French cabaret.
  When visiting eastern Europe, you could decide to forego the usual experience of slumming it out in some cheap hostel, and instead, find a friendly local in whose house you can reside.
  Rather, he was a songwriter of rare poise slumming it in the underground because his elliptical songs were too druggy and bitter to attract the mainstream hosannas they deserved.
  Even by the unhygienic standards of most student digs, this particular house is slumming it.
  Where to stay: you don't want to slum it on Capri.
  The British screen icon out-acts everyone and still comes off like a good sport while slumming it in a pea-brained movie.
  If Malowany's been able to keep making music through recent years, it's because he's been slumming away at his day job as a delivery truck driver and funding all his projects through his own hard-earned cash.
  Contrary to the dalliances of the rich - who've lately been slumming it like it's 1979-there's nothing fun or ‘cool’ in wondering when you'll eat next.
  In fact, like Lorenzo, the Tuscan aristocracy liked nothing better than to slum it when it came to gastronomy.
  Critics say he is just a posh boy who enjoys slumming it.
  Sources close to the Kennilworth Road club have suggested Valois' real motivation for slumming it was financial.
  Sounds about right to me - and if it means more posh kids having to slum it at comprehensives, then good.
  Have we got priorities right - or are we slumming it in the name of some spurious vocationalism or management theory?
  He was generous with his media time, arrived punctually in a blazer for the toss, and apparently saw fit to slum it in the same five-star hotels as his team.
  Both films have respected older actors slumming it as bad guys.
  Livingston will be slumming it again in the first division next season.
  It's always a pleasure when a museum slums it with a pop culture show.
  Mel of Inveresk Street has slummed it by linking to me, and I've been itching to return the favour.
  While she recognizes that her decision to expand her range by appearing in so small-scale a film looks a little calculated - a big name slumming it to establish street cred - Aniston insists that more was at stake than a mere image make-over.
  Instead of giving his character a dose of good ol’ American machismo, Brosnan comes off as a refined Englishman slumming it with a shot of American hooch.

Origin

Early 19th century (originally slang, in the sense ‘room’): of unknown origin.

单词	slum
释义	Definition of slum in English: slum nounPlural slums slʌmsləm 1A squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people. 贫民窟 inner-city slums the area was fast becoming a slum for the destitute as modifier slum areas slum dwellers Example sentencesExamples But these young people are choosing to live in the world's most destitute urban slums, among the poorest of the poor. The focus should be on rural areas and urban slums, where illiteracy and poor hygiene will have to be tackled. In the majority world many rural people buy and sell in the urban centres as well, and increasingly are being forced to move into urban areas-often into slums or ghettos. Begun in April 2003, it is a non-profit organisation with a mission to unleash the potential of the slum, street and orphaned children of urban India. According to Richard Franceys, putting water supply on a commercial basis has meant more money to connect the very poorest people in the slums and shanty towns. In his later articles, Brown increasingly referred to the urban problems of slums, blighted areas and suburban sprawl. In-between each of these districts are the slums, where the poor and destitute mope, hating their lives. She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a slum known as the Walled City. As well as this lack of opportunity, there seems to be so much violence in the ghettos, in the slums, the project areas, where most of the immigrants have to live. As part of the activities of the trust we have started free classes for girl students from local government schools from a nearby slum who come from poor families. As you can see, the Red Party has a lot of natural support in inner city slum areas like this. It is like an inner-city slum and the street cleaning leaves a lot to be desired. The Trust introduced on April 1 a mobile dispensary which will make rounds of slums and localities inhabited by poor sections of society to provide free medical treatment. The plague was only finally brought under control in 1666 when the Great Fire of London burned down the areas most affected by plague - the city slums inhabited by the poor. As recent experience has shown, what it does do is increase the gap between rich and poor, pulling vast numbers of people away from the land into squalid urban slums. There is also a primary school at the premises run by the committee for the poor and slum dwellers in the locality. Its control of poor slum areas and inner cities resulted from the chaos that was brought about by the occupation; it was not itself the cause of the chaos. However, there is still a large segment of the population which lives in urban slums and poor rural areas without electricity or running water. Therefore, I will ensure that urban poor living in slums will get better amenities. The appalling social situation in Iran has been highlighted by recent reports of protest marches in working class urban areas and slum districts. Synonyms hovel (slums), ghetto, shanty town in Brazil favela Indian jhuggi, jhuggi jhopri, bustee Canadian informal Cabbagetown rare rookery 1.1 A house or building unfit for human habitation. （不适宜人居住的）房屋（或建筑） he moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house Example sentencesExamples The best home the family of seven can afford is this wood shack in a slum. Too many buses are slums on wheels - services provided by people who do not use them for people that they do not care about. Have they looked at the social consequences of building tomorrow's slums today and what provisions are being put in place to deal with these in the long term? Or we will end up building mansions in the midst of slums." But ironically the former slum houses are now sought-after properties following regeneration and the flats have become increasingly unpopular with residents. It made my dorm building look like a slum, that was for sure. Many city dwellers live in slums and tenement buildings It is reasonable to argue that we should not be building today houses that are thermal slums; too cold in winter and too hot in summer. Historic houses were being labelled slums just because they were old. By-law violations that turn residential buildings into slums are not the only matters the municipal courts will be dealing with. What we are building are the slums of the future. The area, just five minutes drive south from the luxury dockland apartments and gleaming office blocks in Leeds city centre, is now a mixture of decent semi-detached family houses and rundown terrace slums. Its cities combine modern skyscrapers, suburban houses, and impoverished slums. Blunkett's conclusion was that ‘if you live in a slum in a high-rise building and you are on your own with three children, the idea of liberty and freedom means nothing’. Most poor Hindu women had no inhibitions about working, whether they lived in slums or tenements. Steve told Tim it's best to avoid buying glamorous houses, and slums. I think that we will live here for maybe 12 months and then move elsewhere leaving the house as a slum and make a start again a little further down the road. Three decades on these houses are slums to be demolished and the greenway, as described in your article, is a vandalised yobs' playground full of litter and burned-out cars. It is in fact, a concrete jungle where towering high-rises, slums and resplendent Gothic buildings lie next to each other. These houses are not slums - Prescott is currently paying up to £200,000 per house - in order to demolish them. Synonyms shack, shanty, hut, shed, cabin verbslums, slumming, slummed slʌmsləm [no object]informal 1Spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes. 〈非正式〉（出于猎奇或为得到救济）过贫民生活 he bought some second-hand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged Example sentencesExamples The New Yorker goes slumming on Avenue Q and has a great time, as everyone does. You said you wanted to go slumming, so I picked a place to eat in Greenwich Village. Kate could feel speculative glances on her as she rolled down the street and thought, ‘They probably figure I'm slumming, looking for a good time.’ Doing that among the Madison Square Garden crowd where ritzy ladies sported rhinestone and diamanté ‘W’ pins would be like forcing the country club to go slumming on a nice summer's day. But it makes me feel a bit low and dirty, as though I'd been participating in slumming or walking through a madhouse in the 18th Century to laugh at the inmates. Played out against a backdrop of the infamous club, their romance develops as we meet the high life and the low life, slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich, mingling with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans. It seems like Pattaya to Thais is like New Orleans is to Americans, great place to visit and go slumming, but you really don't want to live there. When I went slumming like this, I wanted to cruise the bad slums. To be fair to him, the former Merton Professor's not slumming; he's bought the place and moved right in. You're slumming… hanging out with the charity cases, the scholarship scum. Imagine - word gets out that the heir to the Stuckley fortune was hitting from the other side of the plate, slumming with friends of Judy, eating her caviar hot, on a dirty plate. As I entered the premises, I was instantly engulfed in the warm glow of scores of happy yuppies, slumming aristocrats, homesick business-travelers and a contingent of restaurant critics. Obviously the lady was slumming, and more importantly she didn't want anyone to know about it. Vanessa ran in circles far more elevated than ours and she was always telling us that when she hung out with us she was slumming. Do wealthy Americans simply feel it's more acceptable to go slumming out of sight at the website rather than inside the store? Indeed, Sturges' screwball comedy Sullivan's Travels, about a playboy director who goes slumming to experience the life of the common man, was supposedly modelled on his new best friend. It would not do to have a Rodgers slumming in show business. We're not slumming, we don't look down on you and we're here to have fun, too. Kicked out of east-coast prep schools and facing the glum prospect of a military academy, Igby goes slumming in lower Manhattan, but there's a porous border between moneyed respectability and penniless Bohemia. Some inmates glare at the camera, assessing the artist, wondering what she is doing slumming on their turf. 1.1slum it Put up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used to. 将就适应，过简陋生活 businessmen are having to slum it in aircraft economy class seats 商人们不得不在飞机经济舱里将就一下。 Example sentencesExamples When visiting eastern Europe, you could decide to forego the usual experience of slumming it out in some cheap hostel, and instead, find a friendly local in whose house you can reside. Even by the unhygienic standards of most student digs, this particular house is slumming it. Have we got priorities right - or are we slumming it in the name of some spurious vocationalism or management theory? Rather, he was a songwriter of rare poise slumming it in the underground because his elliptical songs were too druggy and bitter to attract the mainstream hosannas they deserved. Mel of Inveresk Street has slummed it by linking to me, and I've been itching to return the favour. Two MMC students and a cinema professor go slumming as they lend character and voice to an expressionist painting set in a conspicuously disreputable French cabaret. While she recognizes that her decision to expand her range by appearing in so small-scale a film looks a little calculated - a big name slumming it to establish street cred - Aniston insists that more was at stake than a mere image make-over. The British screen icon out-acts everyone and still comes off like a good sport while slumming it in a pea-brained movie. The good news is that the cooking is better than average, and you won't be slumming it as the place is extremely comfortable. Sounds about right to me - and if it means more posh kids having to slum it at comprehensives, then good. It's always a pleasure when a museum slums it with a pop culture show. Sources close to the Kennilworth Road club have suggested Valois' real motivation for slumming it was financial. Both films have respected older actors slumming it as bad guys. If Malowany's been able to keep making music through recent years, it's because he's been slumming away at his day job as a delivery truck driver and funding all his projects through his own hard-earned cash. Contrary to the dalliances of the rich - who've lately been slumming it like it's 1979-there's nothing fun or ‘cool’ in wondering when you'll eat next. In fact, like Lorenzo, the Tuscan aristocracy liked nothing better than to slum it when it came to gastronomy. He was generous with his media time, arrived punctually in a blazer for the toss, and apparently saw fit to slum it in the same five-star hotels as his team. Livingston will be slumming it again in the first division next season. Critics say he is just a posh boy who enjoys slumming it. Where to stay: you don't want to slum it on Capri. Instead of giving his character a dose of good ol’ American machismo, Brosnan comes off as a refined Englishman slumming it with a shot of American hooch. Derivatives slummer noun ˈslʌməˈsləmər The ring-leader of the slummers, a duo of Austrians, is Sebastian. Example sentencesExamples And the scene escalates, people are rising from their chairs, the duly deputized representatives of barroom order show up… and the slummers get bounced right back out into the night. He paints a vivid picture of Victorian and Edwardian slummers and the social and sexual politics that impelled their urban journeys. These streets are the marketplace for garrulous gamine Eliza, who ekes out a living selling flowers to wealthy slummers. It is in some sense surprising that a story with the potential to discipline literary slummers should find its way into a magazine that catered to them. This magazine isn't for the New Yorker, it's for the slummer. The wealthy aren't invited, since nobody wants it thrown out of whack by a bunch of elegant slummers. But by evening it transformed into a seductive siren, luring sailors and slummers into a dangerous milieu of opium dens, crimping joints, saloons, brothels and gambling houses. I know people will call me a slummer for saying that, but I know that the underclass in American cities are like urban hunters and gatherers. The novel describes vividly how reformers, do-gooders and slummers all beat a path to Southwark. But when I went there in August I was disoriented by how tame the place felt as the slummers finally overwhelmed the neighborhood. Origin Early 19th century (originally slang, in the sense 'room'): of unknown origin. Rhymes become, benumb, Brum, bum, chum, crumb, drum, glum, gum, ho-hum, hum, Kara Kum, lum, mum, numb, plum, plumb, Rhum, rhumb, rum, scrum, scum, some, strum, stum, succumb, sum, swum, thrum, thumb, tum, yum-yum Definition of slum in US English: slum nounsləmsləm 1A squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people. 贫民窟 Example sentencesExamples As well as this lack of opportunity, there seems to be so much violence in the ghettos, in the slums, the project areas, where most of the immigrants have to live. Its control of poor slum areas and inner cities resulted from the chaos that was brought about by the occupation; it was not itself the cause of the chaos. According to Richard Franceys, putting water supply on a commercial basis has meant more money to connect the very poorest people in the slums and shanty towns. In the majority world many rural people buy and sell in the urban centres as well, and increasingly are being forced to move into urban areas-often into slums or ghettos. As recent experience has shown, what it does do is increase the gap between rich and poor, pulling vast numbers of people away from the land into squalid urban slums. As you can see, the Red Party has a lot of natural support in inner city slum areas like this. Therefore, I will ensure that urban poor living in slums will get better amenities. In-between each of these districts are the slums, where the poor and destitute mope, hating their lives. Begun in April 2003, it is a non-profit organisation with a mission to unleash the potential of the slum, street and orphaned children of urban India. She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a slum known as the Walled City. However, there is still a large segment of the population which lives in urban slums and poor rural areas without electricity or running water. It is like an inner-city slum and the street cleaning leaves a lot to be desired. As part of the activities of the trust we have started free classes for girl students from local government schools from a nearby slum who come from poor families. In his later articles, Brown increasingly referred to the urban problems of slums, blighted areas and suburban sprawl. But these young people are choosing to live in the world's most destitute urban slums, among the poorest of the poor. There is also a primary school at the premises run by the committee for the poor and slum dwellers in the locality. The Trust introduced on April 1 a mobile dispensary which will make rounds of slums and localities inhabited by poor sections of society to provide free medical treatment. The appalling social situation in Iran has been highlighted by recent reports of protest marches in working class urban areas and slum districts. The focus should be on rural areas and urban slums, where illiteracy and poor hygiene will have to be tackled. The plague was only finally brought under control in 1666 when the Great Fire of London burned down the areas most affected by plague - the city slums inhabited by the poor. Synonyms hovel 1.1 A house or building unfit for human habitation. （不适宜人居住的）房屋（或建筑） Example sentencesExamples These houses are not slums - Prescott is currently paying up to £200,000 per house - in order to demolish them. The best home the family of seven can afford is this wood shack in a slum. Blunkett's conclusion was that ‘if you live in a slum in a high-rise building and you are on your own with three children, the idea of liberty and freedom means nothing’. But ironically the former slum houses are now sought-after properties following regeneration and the flats have become increasingly unpopular with residents. Its cities combine modern skyscrapers, suburban houses, and impoverished slums. Have they looked at the social consequences of building tomorrow's slums today and what provisions are being put in place to deal with these in the long term? Steve told Tim it's best to avoid buying glamorous houses, and slums. It is reasonable to argue that we should not be building today houses that are thermal slums; too cold in winter and too hot in summer. Historic houses were being labelled slums just because they were old. Or we will end up building mansions in the midst of slums." The area, just five minutes drive south from the luxury dockland apartments and gleaming office blocks in Leeds city centre, is now a mixture of decent semi-detached family houses and rundown terrace slums. What we are building are the slums of the future. Most poor Hindu women had no inhibitions about working, whether they lived in slums or tenements. Too many buses are slums on wheels - services provided by people who do not use them for people that they do not care about. It is in fact, a concrete jungle where towering high-rises, slums and resplendent Gothic buildings lie next to each other. Three decades on these houses are slums to be demolished and the greenway, as described in your article, is a vandalised yobs' playground full of litter and burned-out cars. Many city dwellers live in slums and tenement buildings I think that we will live here for maybe 12 months and then move elsewhere leaving the house as a slum and make a start again a little further down the road. By-law violations that turn residential buildings into slums are not the only matters the municipal courts will be dealing with. It made my dorm building look like a slum, that was for sure. Synonyms shack, shanty, hut, shed, cabin verbsləmsləm [no object]informal 1Spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes. 〈非正式〉（出于猎奇或为得到救济）过贫民生活 he bought some secondhand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged Example sentencesExamples Kicked out of east-coast prep schools and facing the glum prospect of a military academy, Igby goes slumming in lower Manhattan, but there's a porous border between moneyed respectability and penniless Bohemia. The New Yorker goes slumming on Avenue Q and has a great time, as everyone does. But it makes me feel a bit low and dirty, as though I'd been participating in slumming or walking through a madhouse in the 18th Century to laugh at the inmates. We're not slumming, we don't look down on you and we're here to have fun, too. Played out against a backdrop of the infamous club, their romance develops as we meet the high life and the low life, slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich, mingling with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans. You're slumming… hanging out with the charity cases, the scholarship scum. Doing that among the Madison Square Garden crowd where ritzy ladies sported rhinestone and diamanté ‘W’ pins would be like forcing the country club to go slumming on a nice summer's day. You said you wanted to go slumming, so I picked a place to eat in Greenwich Village. Do wealthy Americans simply feel it's more acceptable to go slumming out of sight at the website rather than inside the store? As I entered the premises, I was instantly engulfed in the warm glow of scores of happy yuppies, slumming aristocrats, homesick business-travelers and a contingent of restaurant critics. It would not do to have a Rodgers slumming in show business. Obviously the lady was slumming, and more importantly she didn't want anyone to know about it. When I went slumming like this, I wanted to cruise the bad slums. Imagine - word gets out that the heir to the Stuckley fortune was hitting from the other side of the plate, slumming with friends of Judy, eating her caviar hot, on a dirty plate. It seems like Pattaya to Thais is like New Orleans is to Americans, great place to visit and go slumming, but you really don't want to live there. Kate could feel speculative glances on her as she rolled down the street and thought, ‘They probably figure I'm slumming, looking for a good time.’ To be fair to him, the former Merton Professor's not slumming; he's bought the place and moved right in. Some inmates glare at the camera, assessing the artist, wondering what she is doing slumming on their turf. Vanessa ran in circles far more elevated than ours and she was always telling us that when she hung out with us she was slumming. Indeed, Sturges' screwball comedy Sullivan's Travels, about a playboy director who goes slumming to experience the life of the common man, was supposedly modelled on his new best friend. 1.1slum it Put up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used to. 将就适应，过简陋生活 businessmen are having to slum it in aircraft economy class seats 商人们不得不在飞机经济舱里将就一下。 Example sentencesExamples The good news is that the cooking is better than average, and you won't be slumming it as the place is extremely comfortable. Two MMC students and a cinema professor go slumming as they lend character and voice to an expressionist painting set in a conspicuously disreputable French cabaret. When visiting eastern Europe, you could decide to forego the usual experience of slumming it out in some cheap hostel, and instead, find a friendly local in whose house you can reside. Rather, he was a songwriter of rare poise slumming it in the underground because his elliptical songs were too druggy and bitter to attract the mainstream hosannas they deserved. Even by the unhygienic standards of most student digs, this particular house is slumming it. Where to stay: you don't want to slum it on Capri. The British screen icon out-acts everyone and still comes off like a good sport while slumming it in a pea-brained movie. If Malowany's been able to keep making music through recent years, it's because he's been slumming away at his day job as a delivery truck driver and funding all his projects through his own hard-earned cash. Contrary to the dalliances of the rich - who've lately been slumming it like it's 1979-there's nothing fun or ‘cool’ in wondering when you'll eat next. In fact, like Lorenzo, the Tuscan aristocracy liked nothing better than to slum it when it came to gastronomy. Critics say he is just a posh boy who enjoys slumming it. Sources close to the Kennilworth Road club have suggested Valois' real motivation for slumming it was financial. Sounds about right to me - and if it means more posh kids having to slum it at comprehensives, then good. Have we got priorities right - or are we slumming it in the name of some spurious vocationalism or management theory? He was generous with his media time, arrived punctually in a blazer for the toss, and apparently saw fit to slum it in the same five-star hotels as his team. Both films have respected older actors slumming it as bad guys. Livingston will be slumming it again in the first division next season. It's always a pleasure when a museum slums it with a pop culture show. Mel of Inveresk Street has slummed it by linking to me, and I've been itching to return the favour. While she recognizes that her decision to expand her range by appearing in so small-scale a film looks a little calculated - a big name slumming it to establish street cred - Aniston insists that more was at stake than a mere image make-over. Instead of giving his character a dose of good ol’ American machismo, Brosnan comes off as a refined Englishman slumming it with a shot of American hooch. Origin Early 19th century (originally slang, in the sense ‘room’): of unknown origin.
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