shtetl单词基本解析：

n.（尤指第二次世界大战前东欧的）犹太人小村（或小镇）
n.(尤指第二次世界大战前东欧的)犹太人小村(或小镇)(复)shtetls或shtetlach
n.（尤指第二次世界大战前东欧的）犹太人小村（或小镇）；

shtetl变化用词：

shtetl英英释义：

ShtetlA shtetl (, diminutive form of Yiddish shtot שטאָט, "town", similar to the South German diminutive "Städtel/Städtle", "little town"), was a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe before the pogroms and the Holocaust. Shtetls (Yiddish plural: שטעטלעך, shtetlekh) were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania.

以上来源于:Wikipedia

shtetl中文词源：

shtetl 东欧的犹太小镇 来自依地语 shtetl,小镇，小词形式于德语 Stadt,城镇，来自 PIE*sta,站，站立，词源同 stand,state.

shtetl用法和例句：

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Joke: A poor Jew lived in the shtetl in 19th century Russia. A Cossack comes up to him on horseback.

'''笑话一则'''：一位穷苦的犹太人住在19世纪俄国的犹太村庄里，这天，一位骑着马的哥萨克骑兵来到他的身边。

His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world.They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (village).

他的作品体现了传统犹太生活和语言与现代世界的矛盾、试图再现正在消失的欧洲乡村传统文化。

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