hospice

英 ['hɒspɪs]美 ['hɑspɪs]
  • n. 收容所；旅客招待所；救济院
  • n. (Hospice)人名；(法)奥斯皮斯
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中文词源

hospice 临终安养院

来自拉丁语hospitium,旅店，客店，词源同hospital.后引申词义老人的临终安养院。

英文词源

hospice (n.)
1818, "rest house for travelers," from French hospice (13c.), from Latin hospitium "guest house, hospitality," from hospes (genitive hospitis) "guest, host" (see host (n.1)). Sense of "home for the aged and terminally ill " is from 1893; hospice movement first attested 1979.

双语例句

1. He died in March at St Julia's Hospice.
他于3月在圣朱莉娅临终关怀医院去世。
来自柯林斯例句
2. My definition of a good hospice is one where some of the patients start feeling too good to die.
我对“好的晚期病人安养院”的定义是一个能让一些病人开始感到生有所恋的地方。
来自柯林斯例句
3. They have started a hospice for terminal patients.
他们为身患绝症的病人开办了一个安养所。
来自辞典例句
4. What's a hospice nurse from Manhattan doing at a high school homecoming in Texas?
曼哈顿的临终关怀护士到德克萨斯州的一所高中返校节来干 什么 ?
来自电影对白
5. And with one long last look, I turned left the hospice.
最后久久地凝视了她一眼, 我转身离开了收容所.
来自互联网