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.
雙語例句
1. He died in March at St Julia's Hospice.
他于3月在圣朱莉婭臨終關(guān)懷醫(yī)院去世。
來自柯林斯例句
2. My definition of a good hospice is one where some of the patients start feeling too good to die.
我對“好的晚期病人安養(yǎng)院”的定義是一個(gè)能讓一些病人開始感到生有所戀的地方。
來自柯林斯例句
3. They have started a hospice for terminal patients.
他們?yōu)樯砘冀^癥的病人開辦了一個(gè)安養(yǎng)所。
來自辭典例句
4. What's a hospice nurse from Manhattan doing at a high school homecoming in Texas?
曼哈頓的臨終關(guān)懷護(hù)士到德克薩斯州的一所高中返校節(jié)來干 什么 ?
來自電影對白
5. And with one long last look, I turned left the hospice.