rabbit hutch
noun [ C ] uk/ˈræb.ɪt ˌhʌtʃ/ us/ˈræb.ɪt ˌhʌtʃ/
兔笼;兔棚
a box made of wood with a wire front where rabbits are kept
In the back yard were some rabbit hutches. 后院里有几个给兔子搭的兔棚。
狭小的房间(或建筑物)
a very small, uncomfortable building or room
Are you OK, working in this little rabbit hutch? 你在这个兔笼子里工作还好吗?
These new houses are all one or two-bedroom rabbit hutches with no character. 这些新房子都是一个或两个卧室的兔子笼,没什么特色。
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- She used old painters' canvases to cover her chicken coops and rabbit hutches.
- He built a bird table and a rabbit hutch.
- One minute I was living in a rabbit hutch and the next I was in the governor's mansion.
- The New Yorker used to be a refuge of eccentrics and talented misfits holed up in tiny little rabbit hutches.
- This was a low-wage country, accused of keeping its workers in "rabbit hutches".