housing
英 [haʊzɪŋ]
美 ['haʊzɪŋ]
- n. 房屋；住房供给；[机] 外壳；遮盖物；机器等的防护外壳或外罩
housing 中文词源
housing 住宅，住房统称house,屋子，-ing,集合名词后缀。
housing 英文词源
- 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.
housing 双语例句
1. The government is taking emergency action to deal with a housing crisis. 政府正采取紧急措施解决住房危机。 来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Little of the existing housing is of good enough quality.
- 现有的住房几乎少有质量过关的。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Residents in general are poor and undereducated, and live in sub-standard housing.
- 居民们普遍都很贫穷，受教育程度低，居住条件较差。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. I think that the underlying problem is education, unemployment and bad housing.
- 我认为深层的问题在于教育、失业和糟糕的住房条件。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. Blacks have been hurt by racial inequalities in housing and education.
- 住房与教育方面的种族不平等现象让黑人深受伤害。
来自柯林斯例句