| 单词 |
favela |
| 释义 |
‖ favela|faˈvela|
[Pg.]
In Brazil, a shack, shanty; a slum: usu. in pl. favelas, a collection of improvised huts, a shanty town.
Hence faveˈlado, a person dwelling in a favela.
1961G. Mikes Tango 18 In the midst of all this beauty and elegance, you discover the favelas... The favela is a wretched, ramshackle, filthy hut run up out of sticks, rotting planks, dirty rags and cardboard, as a rule in less than twenty-four hours... The favelas have no electricity (unless, as frequently happens, an enterprising favelado manages to tap an electric cable). 1962Guardian 5 Oct. 13/4 A Sao Paulo favela, one of those slum shanty towns. 1964‘M. E. Chaber’ Six who Ran (1965) iv. 57 We have a little house in the favelas. 1964W. McCord in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 427 They hastily retreated to the city's healthier quarters, leaving the suffering favelados unchanged. 1969J. Mander Static Soc. ii. 81 We cannot admire Rio's skyline for the squalid favelas nestling between her sugar-loaf hills. |
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