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.).
雙語例句
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，但分給我的房間簡直不是人住的地方。
來自柯林斯例句
2. They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
接下來的5年中，他們住在一間骯臟不堪的小破屋里。
來自辭典例句
3. It's very uncomfortable living in a dirty hovel like ours.
住在我們這樣骯臟的破屋子里,太不舒服了.
來自辭典例句
4. She's back in the old hovel already.
她已回到原來的破屋里去了.
來自辭典例句
5. I don't know how you can bear to live in this hovel.