英语释义

1. a settlement of jerry-built shacks lying on the outskirts of a Brazilian city

片语

East Side贫民区（纽约东部的）

英汉例句

• in fact s?o paulo’s biggest favela (slum) crams some 200,000 people into a small area just below a road called the street of tears.

  实际上，s?opaulo’s的最大贫民窟就在一条名叫泪之街的马路下面，里面拥挤地住着大约200.000人。

• casas bahia, the country’s largest retailer, is celebrating the opening there of its first ever store in a favela (pictured above).

  巴西最大的家电零售商casasbahia，正在那举行其贫民窟首家店铺的开业庆典（见上图）。

• some favela residents complained that police ransacked their homes.

  有些贫民窟居民抱怨警察搜索他们的住家。

• during the five days and nights that i stayed at the favelinha, safety in and around the favela was never an issue.

  我在这家旅馆住了五天，佩利拉贫民区和周边地区的安全不成问题。

• last year, two broad nosed caimans were seized by civil police in a rio favela and sent to a zoo in the nearby city of niteroi.

  警方去年从里约贫民窟里抓到了两头宽吻凯门鳄，送到了附近城市尼泰罗伊（niteroi）动物园。

• whereas education levels were the best prediction of whether someone born in a favela would make it out, hard work and good luck were also needed.

  尽管受教育水平最能预测出身贫民窟的人能否出人头地，但是努力工作和一点点好运也是成功所必不可少的。

• it「s a bit more plausible to say that they」re strong like a big sprawling semilegal favela is strong.

  说它像一个鱼龙混杂的半合法的平民窟一样强大听起来还是蛮有些道理的。

• in general, ms perlman finds far more social mobility than the reams of favela studies would suggest.

  总的来说，珀尔曼女士发现当地社会的流动性比大量贫民窟调查得出的结论要多。

• on a balmy saturday night in february the hilltop favela of cavalão (「big horse」, because that was what was needed to reach it) warms up for carnival.

  二月，一个周六的夜晚，凉风习习，气候宜人。 卡瓦劳贫民区的山顶（有人称之为「巨马」，因为到达山顶须得驰马而行）一片欢腾，人们沉浸在迎接狂欢节到来的喜悦中。

• at the foot of the favela hundreds of police operatives had gathered to celebrate the day「s haul; nearly 50kg of pure cocaine, which they had found buried in the surrounding rainforest.

  在贫民区山脚下，数百名警察探员聚集在一起，庆祝当天的成果；他们找到埋在周围雨林里的近50公斤纯可卡因。

• looking toward the west, in a scene that is a familiar one to rio」s ipanema beach goers, the favela vidigal is nestled below the twin peaks of morro dois irm?os (two brothers hill).

  向西望去，在里约热内卢常去海滩的人的熟悉场景中，vidgal 贫民窟就依偎在morrodois irm?os （两兄弟山）的双峰下。

• to see why, visit places like jardim iguatemi, a favela (a self-built settlement) straggling over steep hills on the eastern extremity of s?o paulo.

  想要了解原因，我们拜访了坐落在圣保罗州极东陡峭山坡上的jardimiguatemi贫民窟（自建棚户区）。

• 「they're proud to live in a favela that hosts visitors from all over the world,」 says carlos, who welcomed me inside.

  「他们居住的贫民区接待来自世界各地的游客，居民们为此感到自豪。」在旅馆里迎接我的卡洛斯说。

• here, a favela in rio de janeiro is transformed by dozens of images.

  几十幅图像改变了里约热内卢的贫民区形象。