urban slum

基本解释

In Zimbabwe, economic collapse and the forced relocation of urban dwellers have lifted the urban slum population.
在津巴布韦，经济的崩溃和城市居民的迫迁抬升了城市贫困人口比例。
But the law did not provide the new beginning for urban slum dwellers that some had hoped;few such families had the resources to start farming, even on free land.
不过，这部法律并未像某些人希望的那样，成为产生城市贫民窟的新开端，即使在免费获得的土地上也很少有家庭拥有开始耕作的资源。
As this year's State of the World's Mothers, issued by Save the Children, shows, one of the worst places in the world to be a mother is in an urban slum.
根据救助儿童会今年发布的《世界母亲状况报告》，全世界最糟糕的做母亲的地点就是城市贫民窟。

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