详细用法
形容词用法：
- A squalid room: 肮脏的房间
- A squalid neighborhood: 肮脏的社区
- Squalid living conditions: 恶劣的生活条件
- Squalid streets: 肮脏的街道
- Squalid conditions: 肮脏的环境
- Squalid slums: 肮脏的贫民窟
- A squalid appearance: 不潔的外观
- A squalid state: 糟糕的状态
- A squalid existence: 悲惨的生活
- A squalid reputation: 卑劣的声誉
副词用法：
- To live squalidly: 生活肮脏地
- To live in squalor: 生活在肮脏中
其他用法：
- Squalid living conditions: 恶劣的生活条件
- Squalid treatment: 卑劣的待遇
- To escape from a squalid situation: 逃离恶劣的环境
- To improve squalid conditions: 改善肮脏的状况
- To witness the squalid reality: 目睹肮脏的现实
深度学习
squalid (SKWAH lid) This adjective means “dirty or wretched” caused by poverty or negligence. It can also mean dirty in the sense of being morally repulsive. The noun form is “squalor.”
- When he first joined the Peace Corps, Paul was horrified by the squalor in which the natives lived. Many of them slept on the floor in mud huts and had no electricity or flush toilets.
- The principal decided to ban several of the books on the reading list because he considered the material too squalid for high school freshmen.
——摘自《Fiske WordPower: The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast》
机器翻译，仅供参考
肮脏的（SKWAH lid）这个形容词的意思是由于贫穷或疏忽造成的“肮脏或悲惨”。在道德上令人厌恶的意义上，它也可能意味着肮脏。名词形式是“squarer”
当他第一次加入和平队时，保罗对当地人生活的肮脏感到震惊。他们中的许多人睡在泥屋里的地板上，没有电，也没有冲水马桶。
校长决定禁止阅读清单上的几本书，因为他认为这些书对高中新生来说太肮脏了。
