tenement
tenement — 名詞
- tenementsingular
- tenementsplural
1. an old apartment building in a crowded city area, where many families live in se
貧民公寓
市區窮人聚居的老舊公寓樓
an old apartment building in a crowded city area, where many families live in separate units and the place is often linked with poverty or poor repair
Ramon's grandmother grew up in a narrow tenement beside the old railway yard.
Ramon 的祖母是在舊鐵道場旁的一棟貧民公寓裡長大的。
grew up in a tenement
Laundry hung from every window of the brick tenement on Mercer Street.
Mercer Street 那棟磚造貧民公寓的每扇窗戶都掛著晾洗的衣物。
visual detail: tenement on [street]
The fire spread quickly through the tenement because the stairs were wooden.
因為樓梯是木造的，火勢很快就燒遍了那棟貧民公寓。
tenement fire in an old building
Omar visited a museum that recreated a family's room in a nineteenth-century tenement.
Omar 參觀了一間博物館，裡面重現了一戶人家在十九世紀貧民公寓中的房間。
City workers inspected the tenement after tenants complained about leaking pipes.
房客抱怨水管漏水後，市府人員檢查了那棟貧民公寓。
inspect a tenement after tenant complaints
- old tenement
- brick tenement
- crowded tenement
- tenement fire
- tenement district
- live in a tenement
- apartment block
a neutral everyday term; it does not suggest poverty or poor condition
- tenement house
the fuller form, often used in historical, legal, or architectural contexts
- housing project
usually a planned low-income complex, often government-built, rather than one old city building
- luxury apartment building
a modern or expensive residential building with comfortable conditions
文法句型
a/the tenement
live in a tenement
tenement on/in [street or area]
用法筆記
Often used in historical writing or when describing older urban housing. It usually suggests crowded conditions, low rent, or poor upkeep, not simply any apartment building.
常見錯誤
同根字
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- tenement fire
- tenement block
- tenement housing
- tenement district
常用片語
- live in a tenement
- grow up in a tenement
介系詞搭配
- in a tenement
- on tenement streets