Tenement

(noun.) a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.

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• Take possession of your tenement, and let me fly from this place. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Hope and love had quitted that little tenement, for Robert seemed to have deserted its precincts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It's a six-roomer, exclusive of kitchens, said Mr. Guppy, and in the opinion of my friends, a commodious tenement. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Whither will that spirit--now struggling to quit its material tenement--flit when at length released? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Behold us now in our frail tenement, hemmed in by hungry, roaring waves, buffeted by winds. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Their small tenement made a considerable part of it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When he returned to his lodgings all the lights in the Sedley tenement were put out. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The gloom, and must, and dust of the whole tenement, were secret. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Here, too, in this humble tenement, live care, and distrust, and dismay. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• As to the shops and the locality: The street was lined with rather old buildings and poor tenements. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• In tenements, where there is no yard for the family washing, clothes often appear flapping in mid-air. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It had, in its day, probably furnished employment to the inhabitants of the surrounding tenements. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Now, these tumbling tenements contain, by night, a swarm of misery. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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