tenements

The tenements are in a poor section of the city.

共同住宅是在城中较贫苦的区域里.

History experts say more than half the people in New York lived in tenements in 1863.

历史专家表示,1863年,在纽约,超过半数的人生活在廉价公寓里.

A two-family house has two tenements.

一座两家合住的房屋含有两所住宅.

They did not want to call them tenements, so they called them apartment buildings instead.

他们不愿称它们为贫民窟,而改称为公寓.

In later-day tenements, construction details vary.

现代的房屋中, 细部结构变化多端.

Over the years, New York City officials officials passed laws to improve conditions in the tenements.

多年中, 纽约官员陆续颁布了一些法律来提高廉价公寓的居住环境.

Here were crumbling tenements, squalid courtyards and stinking alleys.

随处可见破烂的住房 、 肮脏的庭院和臭气熏天的小胡同.

Volunteers, under the guidance of the local school district, converted it into a tenements.

志愿者们根据当地学校的区划指南, 把这里变成了都市公寓里的绿洲.