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The daily work of cleaning and taking care of a home or hotel — hotel "housekeeping" staff clean and tidy the rooms. It's also used more broadly for small organizing tasks needed to keep something running smoothly, like "housekeeping items" at the start of a meeting, meaning small details to sort out before the main topic.
家務;(飯店)客房清潔;(會議前的)行政瑣事
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
housekeepingnoun
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The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
- Those who with us would have their own little housekeepings and cooking, have not the means, nor perhaps the taste, for such domestic comfort, and take their victuals at the trattoria, or cook-shop.
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The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
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Any general tasks that involve preparation.
- The computer program does some general housekeeping involving initializing variables and opening files before beginning the main processing.
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Announcements that must be made before a show or event can begin.
- Thank you all for coming! Just some quick housekeeping before we get underway, the emergency exits are to your left...
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Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
- "Care not thou about that," said Joliffe; "but tell me, softly and hastily, what is in the pantry?" "Small housekeeping enough," said Phoebe; "a cold capon and some comfits, and the great standing venison pasty, with plenty of spice — a manchet or two besides, and that is all."
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。