housing
英 [ha?z??]
美['ha?z??]
- n. 房屋；住房供給；[機] 外殼；遮蓋物；機器等的防護外殼或外罩
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詞態變化
復數:?housings;
中文詞源
housing 住宅，住房統稱
house,屋子，-ing,集合名詞后綴。
英文詞源
- housing (n.1)
- "buildings, lodgings," early 14c., husing, from the root of house (n.).
- housing (n.2)
- "ornamental covering," c. 1300, houce "covering for the back and flanks of a horse," from Old French houce "mantle, horse-blanket" (Modern French housse), from Medieval Latin hultia "protective covering," from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hulfti (cognates: Middle Dutch hulfte "pocket for bow and arrow," Middle High German hulft "covering"), from PIE root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell). Sense of "case or enclosure for machine or part" is first recorded 1882.
雙語例句
- 1. The government is taking emergency action to deal with a housing crisis.
- 政府正采取緊急措施解決住房危機。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Little of the existing housing is of good enough quality.
- 現有的住房幾乎少有質量過關的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Residents in general are poor and undereducated, and live in sub-standard housing.
- 居民們普遍都很貧窮，受教育程度低，居住條件較差。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. I think that the underlying problem is education, unemployment and bad housing.
- 我認為深層的問題在于教育、失業和糟糕的住房條件。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Blacks have been hurt by racial inequalities in housing and education.
- 住房與教育方面的種族不平等現象讓黑人深受傷害。
來自柯林斯例句
