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.
例文
1. The slum is to be dynamited.
スラム街が爆破される。
2.What a wretched existence the people in the slum lead!
このスラム街の人々はなんと悲惨な生活を送っているのだろう!
3.The policemen who patrolled the big city slum area that summer were sitting on a volcano.
その夏、都市の大スラムをパトロールしていた警察官は火口に身を置いたようだった。
4.Leaving the slum behind her,she turned into a squalid alleyway.
彼女はその労働者エリアの芝小屋地帯を離れ、汚い裏通りに走った。
5.Our record of slum -clearance cast other cities in the shade.