housing

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CET4TEM4考研中高頻詞

復(fù)數(shù):?housings;

housing 住宅，住房統(tǒng)稱

house,屋子，-ing,集合名詞后綴。

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.

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(jī)。

2. Little of the existing housing is of good enough quality.: 現(xiàn)有的住房幾乎少有質(zhì)量過關(guān)的。

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。

4. I think that the underlying problem is education, unemployment and bad housing.: 我認(rèn)為深層的問題在于教育、失業(yè)和糟糕的住房條件。

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(xiàn)象讓黑人深受傷害。