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slumslQmn [C]a very poor and crowded area, esp. of a city, where the houses are in an extremely bad state and the living conditions are very low贫民区，棚户区She was brought up in the slums of Lima. [C]她在利马的贫民窟长大。Slums housing many of the city's 2 million residents are swelling alarmingly. [C]居住着该城市的两百万居民中许多人的贫民区正惊人地膨胀。Most of the villages in the north of the country are virtually rural slums. [C]该国北部的大多数村庄实际上是农村的贫民区。Over half of the inhabitants of this city live in slum conditions. [U]该市一半以上的居民居住在简陋的环境里。(infml disapproving) A slum can also be a very untidy or dirty place.脏乱的地方This flat would be an absolute slum if I wasn't here to clean it. [C]如果我不在这儿清扫的话，这套房间将完全变成一个脏乱不堪的地方。
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