how the other half lives

短语

别名

how the other half live

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The comfortable, luxurious lifestyles of those who are very wealthy.

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词源

From the publication How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis, published in 1890. The photojournalistic piece depicted the previously unseen squalor that many immigrants in New York were subjected to in the 1880s.

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