縮寫自 back slum,后街，窮人街，來自俚語 slum,房間，屋子，可能來自擬聲詞，模仿破屋子 嘎吱嘎吱的聲音。比較 slam,slammer.
英文詞源
slum (n.)
1845, from back slum "dirty back alley of a city, street of poor or low people" (1825), originally a slang or cant word meaning "room," especially "back room" (1812), of unknown origin, pastime popularized by East End novels. Related: slums. Slumscape is from 1947.
slum (v.)
"visit slums of a city," especially for diversion or amusement, often under guise of philanthropy, 1884, from slum (n.). Pastime popularized by East End novels. Earlier it meant to visit slums for disreputable purposes or in search of vice (1860). Related: Slumming.
雙語例句
1. The slum is to be dynamited.
貧民窟要被炸掉了。
來自柯林斯例句
2. What a wretched existence the people in the slum lead!
這個貧民窟里的人們過著多么令人悲慘的生活啊!
來自《用法詞典》
3. The policemen who patrolled the big city slum area that summer were sitting on a volcano.
那年夏天,在城市大貧民區巡邏的警察如同置身于火山口上.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. Leaving the slum behind her , she turned into a squalid alleyway.
她離開了那工人區域的草棚地帶, 跑進了一個齷齪的里巷.
來自子夜部分
5. Our record of slum - clearance cast other cities in the shade.