• n. 房屋；住房供給；[機] 外殼；遮蓋物；機器等的防護外殼或外罩

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。

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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.

住房與教育方面的種族不平等現象讓黑人深受傷害。

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