mid-14c., "roofed passage, vent for smoke," later "shed for animals" (mid-15c.), of unknown origin. Meaning "shed for human habitation; rude or miserable cabin" is from 1620s. It also sometimes meant "canopied niche for a statue or image" (mid-15c.).
例文
1. I went for a living-in job,but the room I was given was a hovel .
私は住所を提供する仕事を探しましたが、私に与えられた部屋はまるで人が住んでいる場所ではありません。
2.They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
次の5年間、彼らは汚い小さな破れた部屋に住んでいた。/
3.It 's very uncomfortable living in a dirty hovel like ours.
私たちのような汚い破れた部屋に住んでいて、とても気分が悪い。
4.She 's back in the old hovel already.
彼女は元の破れた部屋に戻った。
5.I don 't know how you can bear to live in this hovel .