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- a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people贫民窟。
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- a house or building unfit for human habitation（不适宜人居住的）房屋（或建筑）。
(slummed, slumming)no obj.
1- informal spend 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：
day trippers slumming among the quaintly dangerous natives.
一日游者与有异趣但危险的土人一起过简陋的生活。
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slum 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。
派生词
slummer
nounslumminess
nounslummy
adjective词源
early 19th cent. （originally slang, in the sense 'room'）： of unknown origin.