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    Room in a building for keeping horses — not the horses, not the animals' care, just the space itself. "The farm has stabling for twelve horses" means there is room for twelve. It is an uncountable noun, so you never say a stabling or two stablings; you say stabling for six, plenty of stabling, no stabling. It turns up in advertisements for country houses, on riding-school websites, and in writing about racing, because those are the places where people need to say how many horses a building can hold. Outside that world, most people just say stables. Britain uses it more than America. There is also a second use, mainly on the railways: stabling is where trains are parked overnight, and railway workers talk about stabling sidings — the word travelled from horses to trains, as many railway words did. And because stable can be a verb (to stable a horse is to keep it in a stable), stabling can also be the -ing form of that verb: "He was stabling the horses when we arrived."

    馬廄空間、可容納馬匹的廄舍;(鐵路)列車停放(處)

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組成stable (a building for horses) + -ing, the ending that here makes a noun for the thing provided or the space available, as in housing, seating, flooring, parking. This stable came into English from Old French, from a Latin word for a standing-place.

同家族的字

  • stablethe root — the building itself
  • housingsame -ing pattern — places for people to live, taken as a whole
  • seatingsame -ing pattern — places for people to sit, taken as a whole

原始詞典資料2 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。

stablingnoun

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    A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle; a stable.

    • There was a very fine house and a great deal of stabling; we went into the yard through a stone gateway, and John asked for Mr. York.
    • I forget how much stabling there is, but we always had a lot of horses there, twenty-five or thirty, and yet there always seemed to be plenty of room, and plenty of work for more.

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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。