shanty: English has two distinct words shanty. The older, ‘shack’ [19], originated in America, and the fact that to begin with it was mainly used for the houses of Irish immigrants suggests that it may have come from Irish sean tig ‘old house’. Shanty ‘sailor’s song’ [19] probably comes from chantez, the imperative plural of French chanter ‘sing’. => canto, chant
shanty (n.1)
"rough cabin," 1820, from Canadian French chantier "lumberjack's headquarters," in French, "timberyard, dock," from Old French chantier "gantry," from Latin cantherius "rafter, frame" (see gantry). Shanty Irish in reference to the Irish underclass in the U.S., is from 1928 (title of a book by Jim Tully).
shanty (n.2)
"sea song," 1867, alternative spelling of chanty (n.).
雙語例句
1. Pop music can be heard 10 miles away blasting out from the huge tented shanty-town.
響亮的流行音樂從10英里之外巨大的搭滿帳篷的棚戶區傳來。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The category includes ballad, carcl, sea shanty and lullaby.
它們可分為民謠 、 頌歌 、 水手小調以及搖籃曲等幾類.
來自英漢非文學 - 民俗
3. I want to quit this shanty.
我也要離開這爛房子.
來自英漢文學 - 湯姆歷險
4. She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty.