"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.
实用例句
1. The government is taking emergency action to deal with a housing crisis.
政府正采取紧急措施解决住房危机。来自柯林斯例句
2. Little of the existing housing is of good enough quality.
现有的住房几乎少有质量过关的。来自柯林斯例句
3. Residents in general are poor and undereducated, and live in sub-standard housing.
居民们普遍都很贫穷，受教育程度低，居住条件较差。来自柯林斯例句
4. I think that the underlying problem is education, unemployment and bad housing.
我认为深层的问题在于教育、失业和糟糕的住房条件。来自柯林斯例句
5. Blacks have been hurt by racial inequalities in housing and education.
