squalor
noun [ U ] uk/ˈskwɒl.ər/ us/ˈskwɑː.lɚ/
(通常因为缺钱而导致的)极度肮脏
the condition of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, often because of lack of money
These people are forced to live in squalor. 这些人被迫生活在极度肮脏的环境里。
It was a dirty, damp, smelly flat - the usual student squalor. 那是一间脏乱、潮湿、臭烘烘的公寓——常见于学生的那种肮脏。
See: squalid
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- Amid the filth and squalor, my parents taught me the values I live by.
- Overnight, he wrote, he moved from the "safety and cleanliness of rural poverty" to the "foulest kind of urban squalor."
- The medical team found 60,000 emaciated prisoners living in unimaginable squalor.
- How can you live in such squalor?