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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   slum

   • IPA[sləm]

   美式

   • n.
     a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people；a house or building unfit for human habitation.
   • v.
     spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes；put up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used to

   • verb: slum, 3rd person present: slums, gerund or present participle: slumming, past tense: slummed, past participle: slummed

   • noun: slum, plural noun: slums

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people inner-city slums the area was fast becoming a slum for the destitute
   • ▪ a house or building unfit for human habitation.

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. informal spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes he bought some secondhand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged
   • ▪ informal put up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used to businessmen are having to slum it in aircraft economy class seats