缩写自 back slum,后街，穷人街，来自俚语 slum,房间，屋子，可能来自拟声词，模仿破屋子 嘎吱嘎吱的声音。比较 slam,slammer.
英文词源
slum (n.)
1845, from back slum "dirty back alley of a city, street of poor or low people" (1825), originally a slang or cant word meaning "room," especially "back room" (1812), of unknown origin, pastime popularized by East End novels. Related: slums. Slumscape is from 1947.
slum (v.)
"visit slums of a city," especially for diversion or amusement, often under guise of philanthropy, 1884, from slum (n.). Pastime popularized by East End novels. Earlier it meant to visit slums for disreputable purposes or in search of vice (1860). Related: Slumming.
双语例句
1. The slum is to be dynamited.
贫民窟要被炸掉了。
来自柯林斯例句
2. What a wretched existence the people in the slum lead!
这个贫民窟里的人们过着多么令人悲惨的生活啊!
来自《用法词典》
3. The policemen who patrolled the big city slum area that summer were sitting on a volcano.
那年夏天,在城市大贫民区巡逻的警察如同置身于火山口上.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Leaving the slum behind her , she turned into a squalid alleyway.
她离开了那工人区域的草棚地带, 跑进了一个龌龊的里巷.
来自子夜部分
5. Our record of slum - clearance cast other cities in the shade.