英语词汇tenements的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	tenements
词源	tenements. American city tenements are bad enough today, but toward the end of the 19th century they were horrors, al- ways without heat, water, or bathrooms, often with names like the Dirty Spoon or Bandit’s Roost and located on streets actually named Poverty Gap, Bottle Alley, Penitentiary Row, etc. Often they were boardinghouses with signs advertising “Five Cents a Spot,” “Hallway Space 3 cents” and “Standing Room Only.”
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