| 释义 | pondok S. Afr.|ˈpɒndɒk|
Also pondokkie, pandokkie |-ˈɒkɪ|, pandok, pondhock, pondhok, bond-hoek.
[Afrikaans, f. Malay.]
A hut or shack made of oddments of wood, corrugated iron, etc.; a mean house or hovel, esp. one inhabited by non-whites. Also attrib.
1815A. Plumptre tr. Lichtenstein's Trav. S. Afr. II. xli. 185 Near it stand six or eight pandokken, as they are called, a kind of huts made of reeds woven into a wooden frame, which are inhabited by the principal Bastard-Hottentots. 1818C. I. Latrobe Jrnl. Visit S. Afr. 218 The present dwelling..is a hovel, not much better than a Hottentot's bondhoek. 1832A. Smith in P. R. Kirby Andrew Smith & Natal (1955) 35 In the afternoon to the Komga River to the ‘pondok’ (straw hut) of a trader. 1843J. C. Chase Cape Good Hope iii. 235 The Hottentots..planted themselves at the outskirts of the country villages in small pondhoks, or huts, partly covered with old rags, decayed hides, sugar bags, and occasionally a little thatch. 1899Eastern Province Herald (S. Afr.) 4 Nov. (Pettman), The poor burghers are living in pandokkies. 1911State (Cape Town) Dec. 612 In the morning we found that a dozen or more Hottentots had pitched their pondhocks close to the wagon. 1944Cape Argus 23 June, The people who are living in overcrowded shanties and pondokkies. 1948L. G. Green To River's End xiv. 161, I built myself a pondok in a lonely kloof and became tame. 1952E. H. Burrows Overberg Outspan iv. 103 They were the original herdsmen. Each inhabited his own pondok, and each was master of his own field. 1960D. Lessing In Pursuit of English 29 He painted..pondokkies. In other words, African huts, slums, broken⁓down villages. 1971Post (S. Afr., Cape ed.) 9 May 4/6 Here we are..in our well ventilated pondok in the bundu. 1974Cape Times 2 Aug. 3/6 He said that he had read reports about alleged ‘pondok farming’ published in the Cape Times recently. |
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