flophouse
英 [ˈflɒp.haʊs]
美 [ˈflɑːp.haʊs]
- n. 监狱；廉价的低级住所或旅馆
中文词源
flophouse 廉价客栈
比喻用法。
英语词源
- flophouse (n.)
- "cheap hotel," hobo slang, 1904, probably related to slang flop (v.) "lie down for sleep" (1907); see flop (v.) + house (n.). The explanation below is not found in other early references.
In one of [Cincinnati's] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a "flop house" (i.e., a house where the occupants are "flopped" out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes) .... ["McClure's" magazine, November 1904]
权威例句
- 1. I can only afford to live in a flophouse.
- 我只能住便宜的旅馆.
- 2. By now, you're running from flophouse to alley foot jobs for enough cash to stay alive.
- 现在, 你已经在逃命了,从一家小旅馆换到另一家,偷偷做脚底按摩赚钱为生.
- 3. He found Jennison living in style as the proprietor of an old man's flophouse.
- 他发现詹妮森在一个专住老年人的鸡毛店里当老板,过着阔气的生活.