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A sickroom is a room where an ill person stays and rests — either a bedroom that has become one while somebody is , or a room kept ready for that purpose in a school, a boarding house or a large old home. The word carries an atmosphere: quiet voices, curtains half closed, medicine on the table, a certain smell. Writers use it for that atmosphere as much as for the room itself, and you often meet it in phrases like the hush of the sickroom or sickroom duties. It is a somewhat old-fashioned and literary word today, more British than American; in modern speech people simply say "his room" or, at school, the nurse's office or sickbay. If you meet it in a nineteenth-century novel — and you will — it usually means a whole household is organised around one ill person, which is what nursing looked like before hospitals were common. Written sickroom or sick room, both fine.
病房、病人休養的房間(家中或學校裡照顧病人的那間房,語感偏舊)
原始詞典資料1 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。
sickroomnoun
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A room to be used by someone who is ill.
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。