hospice
hospice 英 [ˈhɒspɪs] 美 [ˈhɑspɪs]
n. 收容所；旅客招待所；救济院
名词复数:hospices
- If someone has entered into a hospice, his health outlook is likely grim. Hospice care is a program designed to make the process of dying as comfortable as possible for patients and their families.
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- n. 收容所；旅客招待所；救济院
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1. My mother brought me to the hospice two days after my request.
在我请求两天之后妈妈带我去了收容所。
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2. In a small rural community in the east, hilly terrain separating the local AIDS clinic and hospice makes communication difficult.
在东部的一个农村小镇，山地阻隔了当地的艾滋病诊所和收容所，这也让通讯变得很困难。
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3. For instance, a medical social worker who took a career break to care for her children parlayed her volunteer work at a hospice into a paid position at another hospice, as a volunteer manager.
例如，一位社会医疗工作者因为照顾孩子而选择离职。 后来她凭借救济院志愿者服务的经历成功获得另一家救济院提供的一份有偿工作——志愿者经理。
- hospice (n.) 1818, "rest house for travelers," especially the houses of refuge and shelter kept by monks in the passes of the Alps, from French hospice "hospital, almshouse" (Old French ospice "hospice, shelter," also "hospitality," 13c.), from Latin hospitium "hospitable reception, entertainment; hospitality, bonds of hospitality, relationship of guest and host;" also "place of entertainment, lodging, inn, guest-house," from hospes (genitive hospitis) "guest; host," also "a stranger, foreigner" (see host (n.1)).
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