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单词 Squatter area
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Squatter area

原声例句
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Singapore, when the British left us, in 1960, three out of four people lived in squatter areas.

新加坡,1960 年英国人离开我们时,四分之三的人住在棚户区。

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You probably don't even know what is a squatter area, but in those days, it was just all over town.

您可能甚至不知道什么是棚户区,但在那些日子里,它遍布整个城镇。

英语百科

Shanty town

Shanty town in Soweto, South Africa, 2005
A shanty town in Jakarta, Indonesia
Shanty towns sometimes have an active informal economy, such as garbage sorting, pottery making, textiles and leather works. This allows the poor to earn a livelihood. The above shanty town image is from Ezbet Al Nakhl, in Cairo Egypt, where garbage is sorted manually. Residential area is visible at the top of the image.
A shanty town near Cape Town, South Africa. These slums were built by the apartheid era government to segregate people by color and ethnic origin. The above Khayelitsha Township is Africa's largest, with shanty homes served with disorganized electrical lines, with one shed showing a car parked inside.
"Shantytown" and "Hutment" redirect here. For the created gold-mining town in New Zealand, see Shantytown, New Zealand.

A shanty town or squatter area is a settlement of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes. Such settlements are usually found on the periphery of cities, in public parks, or near railroad tracks, rivers, lagoons or city trash dump sites. Sometimes called a squatter, informal or spontaneous settlement, a typical shanty town often lacks proper sanitation, safe water supply, electricity, hygienic streets, or other basic human necessities.

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