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Dickensian, in this sense, describes buildings, rooms, and living conditions that are poor, dirty, and grim — the sort of world readers remember from Charles Dickens’s novels: cold houses, crowded streets, hungry children, hard work and little kindness. People say Dickensian conditions when they mean “this is bleak for the time we live in,” about a factory dorm, an old prison, or a school. It is not a compliment, and it is a bit literary. The word is the writer’s name plus -ian, “like that person or their world.” Though actually, Dickens wrote funny and warm scenes too; this sense picks out the bleak, dirty, overcrowded side. It is not a general word for “old-fashioned” or “British.”
狄更斯式的（指窮、髒、苦的生活環境）
組成Dickens (Charles Dickens, 1812–1870) + -ian (belonging to, relating to, or like).
同家族的字
- Dickensthe novelist’s surname; Dickensian means like the world in his books
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Dickensianadj/dɪˈkɛn.zɪ.ən/
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Of, pertaining to, or created by the English author Charles Dickens.
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Similar to Dickens' writing style, especially in commenting on society, or in using emotion, humour, or rich descriptions.
- a Dickensian name
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Reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens' writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England.
- At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
- As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.
Dickensiannoun/dɪˈkɛn.zɪ.ən/
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A person who admires or studies the works of Charles Dickens.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。