mid-14c., "roofed passage, vent for smoke," later "shed for animals" (mid-15c.), of unknown origin. Meaning "shed for human habitation; rude or miserable cabin" is from 1620s. It also sometimes meant "canopied niche for a statue or image" (mid-15c.).
双语例句
1. I went for a living-in job, but the room I was given was a hovel.
我找了份提供住所的工作，但分给我的房间简直不是人住的地方。
来自柯林斯例句
2. They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
接下来的5年中，他们住在一间肮脏不堪的小破屋里。
来自辞典例句
3. It's very uncomfortable living in a dirty hovel like ours.
住在我们这样肮脏的破屋子里,太不舒服了.
来自辞典例句
4. She's back in the old hovel already.
她已回到原来的破屋里去了.
来自辞典例句
5. I don't know how you can bear to live in this hovel.