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a hovel
hovel 是可数名词，指简陋破旧的住所，常含贬义；可用形容词修饰，如 a tiny hovel。
The family lived in a tiny hovel.
这家人住在一间极小的简陋小屋里。
简陋小屋
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
简陋小屋
small crude shelter used as a dwelling
The family lived in a tiny hovel.
这家人住在一间极小的简陋小屋里。
遮蔽牲畜或保护农产品等免受天气影响的敞棚
An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
瓷器制造中,一种大型锥形砖结构,烧制窑群围绕其布置
In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
After the storm, the hiker spent the night in a damp hovel near the trail.
暴风雨过后，徒步旅行者在路边一间潮湿的小屋里过了一夜。
The old shepherd lived alone in a tiny hovel at the edge of the valley.
老牧羊人独自住在山谷边缘一间狭小的陋屋里。
They turned the abandoned hovel into a tool shed.
他们把那间废弃的陋屋改成了工具棚。
hovel 是可数名词，指简陋破旧的住所，常含贬义；可用形容词修饰，如 a tiny hovel。
The family lived in a tiny hovel.
这家人住在一间极小的简陋小屋里。
in a hovel 作地点状语，常与 live、sleep、die 等动词搭配。
He spent his childhood in a hovel.
他在一间简陋小屋里度过了童年。
Not this
He lives in hovel.
Use this
He lives in a hovel.
Hovel 是可数名词，单数前需要加冠词 a/an；中文没有冠词，学习者容易漏掉。
Not this
They have built many hovel in the village.
Use this
They have built many hovels in the village.
Hovel 是可数名词，复数形式为 hovels；中文名词没有复数变化，所以容易漏加 -s。
Not this
They stayed in a warm, comfortable hovel during the snowstorm.
Use this
They stayed in a warm, comfortable cabin during the snowstorm.
Hovel 指粗陋的住处，隐含简陋、不舒适甚至肮脏；描述温暖舒适的小屋应用 cabin 或 cottage。
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一间破旧的简陋小屋
They lived in a miserable hovel on the edge of town.
他们住在城镇边缘的一间破旧的简陋小屋里。
住在简陋的小屋里
How can anyone live in a hovel like that?
怎么能有人住在那样简陋的小屋里呢？
潮湿的简陋小屋
The old man slept in a damp hovel with no electricity.
老人睡在一间没有电的潮湿简陋小屋里。
农民的简陋小屋
The novel opens in a peasant's hovel.
小说开篇场景是一间农民的简陋小屋。
我们需求所生的本领真是奇妙，它能让卑贱之物变得珍贵。来，进你的小屋吧。
From Shakespeare's King Lear (Act 3, Scene 2): Lear, lost on a heath during a storm, tells his Fool they must shelter in a hovel. The line reflects how extreme need changes our sense of value.
出自莎士比亚《李尔王》第三幕第二场：李尔王在暴风雨中的荒野上迷路，对弄人说要躲进一间简陋小屋。这句台词体现出极度的匮乏如何改变我们对价值的感知。
Use hovel naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把 hovel 里的 o 想象成低矮的门洞，v 是歪斜的屋顶——一眼记住这是简陋小屋。
语域：formal 常见场景：文学描写、历史叙述 表示简陋小屋时，hovel 比较常见于书面语和文学、历史语境；日常对话中通常用 shack 或 hut 更自然。
hovels
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