"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.
雙語例句
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。
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2. Little of the existing housing is of good enough quality.
現有的住房幾乎少有質量過關的。
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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。
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4. I think that the underlying problem is education, unemployment and bad housing.
我認為深層的問題在于教育、失業和糟糕的住房條件。
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5. Blacks have been hurt by racial inequalities in housing and education.