"rooker" in Chinese (Traditional)

• 禿鼻鴉羣落
• 棚屋（舊俚語）

Definition

“rooker”是指禿鼻鴉（一種鳥，類似烏鴉）聚集或繁殖的地方；在舊時俚語中，也可以指擁擠的廉價住所或貧民區，尤其是19世紀的英國。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Traditional))

“rooker”在現代英語中幾乎不用，主要出現在歷史文學或舊時背景。鳥類棲息地（如 “rookery”）用法較常見；表示貧民窟的意義極為罕見，多見於歷史小說。

Examples

A rooker is a place where many rooks make their nests.

**Rooker** 指許多禿鼻鴉築巢的地方。

Long ago, poor families sometimes lived in a rooker.

很久以前，貧窮家庭有時住在**rooker**裡。

The rooker was noisy with all the birds.

許多鳥讓**rooker**很吵。

In the old novels, the hero often wanders through the city's worst rooker at night.

在舊小說中，主角常在夜晚穿梭於城市最糟的**rooker**。

"Stay away from the rooker—it's not safe after dark," warned the local.

“離**rooker**遠一點，天黑後不安全，”當地人警告道。

We spotted a rooker in the park where hundreds of rooks gathered every spring.

我們在公園發現了一個**rooker**，每年春天有數百隻禿鼻鴉聚集。