latrine
noun /ləˈtriːn/
/ləˈtriːn/
- a toilet in a camp, etc., especially one made by digging a hole in the ground
(营地等的)厕所;(尤指)茅坑,便坑 - We put up the tents and dug a latrine pit.
我们支起了帐篷,挖了个茅坑。
词源Middle English (rare before the mid 19th cent.): via French from Latin latrina, contraction of lavatrina, from lavare ‘to wash’. - We put up the tents and dug a latrine pit.