digs
noun /dɪɡz/
/dɪɡz/
[plural] (old-fashioned, informal)- a room or rooms that you rent to live in
租住的住所；住处 - I shared digs with him for two years.
我和他合租了两年。 - It was difficult to get digs in Manchester because there were so many students.
在曼彻斯特很难找到住处，因为学生太多了。
词源late 19th cent.: short for diggings, used in the same sense, probably referring to the land where a farmer digs, i.e. works and, by extension, lives. - I shared digs with him for two years.