1. 1鬼地方;地獄般的地方(口語,很重的抱怨)

    A hell-hole is a place that feels awful to stay in — dirty, ugly, dangerous, too small, or just miserable. People use this strong, informal word about a prison, a broken-down town, a badly run workplace, or any spot they hate. You would not put it in a careful school report unless you were repeating someone else’s words. Though actually, speakers often stretch it: a hot, noisy classroom can be “a hell-hole” even when nothing truly terrible is happening. It is a complaint, not a careful description.

    「hell-hole」指讓人待起來很糟的地方,可能很髒、很醜、很危險、太小,或單純就是讓人痛苦。人們會用來形容監獄、破舊的小鎮,或管理很差的工作場所。它是強烈、口語的說法。

    這是抱怨的語氣,不是精確的描述,所以不會寫在認真的報告裡,除非是引述別人的話。說話的人常會說得更誇張,例如一間又熱又吵的教室,也可能被說成 a hell-hole,即使沒有真的很糟。

組成hell + hole: a “hole” of a place that feels like hell.

同家族的字

  • hellthe first piece; the picture of a place of suffering
  • hellishsame hell; also means extremely bad

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • hellhole

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。