The hovels which passed for dwellings are being pulled down.
过去用作住室的陋屋正在被拆除.
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Djakarta was a collection of sweltering huts and hovels.
雅加达实际不过是一大堆闷热的棚户和茅舍.
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What did the tenants expect if they could only afford to rent such wretched hovels?
他们那点钱,只能租这样的屋子;破,危险,都活该!
汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
" And living politely in hovels, and I doubt if I'd be received in those hovels.
" 他们规规矩矩地住在茅草棚里,要是我去看他们,我真怀疑他们会不会接待我.
飘（部分）
I visited the peasants in their hovels. The poverty and ignorance. Appalling!
我拜访了许多住在茅屋里的农人,那种穷困! 那种无知! 真令人不忍一睹!
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It was a city of poverty, tightly packed with wood - and - stone hovels overhanging narrow, filthy courtyards.
那是一座贫穷之城, 在狭窄肮脏的天井上伸出的用木石搭成的陋屋拥塞其中.
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