• n. 監(jiān)獄；廉價的低級住所或旅館

比喻用法。

flophouse (n.)

"cheap hotel," hobo slang, 1904, probably related to slang flop (v.) "lie down for sleep" (1907); see flop (v.) + house (n.). The explanation below is not found in other early references.

In one of [Cincinnati's] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a "flop house" (i.e., a house where the occupants are "flopped" out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes) .... ["McClure's" magazine, November 1904]

1. I can only afford to live in a flophouse.

我只能住便宜的旅館.

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2. By now, you're running from flophouse to alley foot jobs for enough cash to stay alive.

現(xiàn)在, 你已經(jīng)在逃命了,從一家小旅館換到另一家,偷偷做腳底按摩賺錢為生.

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3. He found Jennison living in style as the proprietor of an old man's flophouse.

他發(fā)現(xiàn)詹妮森在一個專住老年人的雞毛店里當(dāng)老板,過著闊氣的生活.

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