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slum/slʌm/ n. & v.●n. 1 an overcrowded and squalid backstreet, district, etc., usu. in a city and inhabited by very poor people (通常位于城市中的)贫民窟，贫民区 2 a house or building unfit for human habitation (不适合人居住的)破旧房子 ●v. intr. (slummed, slumming) 1 live in slumlike conditions 过贫民生活 2 go about the slums through curiosity, to examine the condition of the inhabitants, or for charitable purposes (为了解居民生活或为慈善目而)访问贫民区 □ slum it colloq. put up with conditions less comfortable than usual [口]忍受较差的生活条件 □ slummy adj. (slummier, slummiest)□ slumminess n.[19th c.: originally slang] |