1818, "rest house for travelers," from French hospice (13c.), from Latin hospitium "guest house, hospitality," from hospes (genitive hospitis) "guest, host" (see host (n.1)). Sense of "home for the aged and terminally ill " is from 1893; hospice movement first attested 1979.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. He died in March at St Julia's Hospice.
他于3月在圣朱莉婭臨終關(guān)懷醫(yī)院去世。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. My definition of a good hospice is one where some of the patients start feeling too good to die.