| 词汇 | slum |
| 词源 | slum; slumber. Slum, for “a squalid area of a city or town,” is a relatively new word first recorded in 1812. The O.E.D. won’t venture a guess at its origins, simply labeling it “cant,” but it has been suggested that slum may derive from slumber—perhaps because slum first meant the squalid room where a poor person slept, or perhaps because slum areas were erroneously thought to be sleepy, quiet places! Slumber comes from the Middle En- glish slumeren, “to doze.” |
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