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n. 旅客住宿处, 收容所



    hospice
    [ noun ]
    1. a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)

    2. <noun.artifact>
    3. a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill

    4. <noun.act>


    Hospice \Hos"pice\, n. [F., fr. L. hospitium hospitality, a
    place where strangers are entertained, fr. hospes stranger,
    guest. See {Host} a landlord.]
    A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or
    entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass,
    as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.

    1. "It's like living next to a hospital," said Tom Meleck, whose home is directly behind the hospice.
    2. The hospice is a drab, utilitarian four-story building that once served as a seminary and is now home to four black-frocked priests of the Congregation of Saint Bernard, part of the order of St. Augustine.
    3. One of her last wishes was to give the artificial Christmas tree to the hospice, and Bob Gery, one of her sons, did that.
    4. Outside the hospice, hundreds of people waited in a cold drizzle to see Mr. Jackson.
    5. The mission could be a hospice for AIDS patients, a home for abused mothers and children or a home for unwed mothers, Bishop Daniel M. Buechlein said Wednesday.
    6. "To die with AIDS is to die without dignity," she said. "I've seen it in my hospice work.
    7. "It's a shame that there wasn't someone who was keen and understands how to watch out for these problems," said David Kessler, president of a firm that provides home nursing and hospice care for AIDS patients.
    8. A federal judge with a tough reputation has tentatively agreed to let a man who helped import 11 tons of marijuana to run a hospice for AIDS patients in lieu of a maximum 15-year prison sentence.
    9. In the AIDS hospice in Houston, Texas, where the sick support one another, too often rejected even by their loved ones.
    10. Instead, the program expands coverage of long-term hospital stays, nursing-home and hospice care.
    11. Yet, much as the captive dogs, the hospice also remains a prisoner to the breed's myth, Mr. Girard believes.
    12. The National Consumers League is releasing a revised guide on the advantages and disadvantages of hospice care for terminally ill patients.
    13. "As medical science finds more sophisticated ways to prolong life, many Americans are facing new and painful questions about death and dying; hospice care is one answer to this question," said Linda Golodner, the league's executive director.
    14. HOSPICE CARE _ The new law provides unlimited hospice care for terminal patients; it was previously limited to 210 days.
    15. "We've had her on hospice care at home since last spring," the doctor said. "We are keeping her as comfortable as possible for as long as possible.
    16. By the 1950s, the hospice's elders were poised to drop the animals but opted instead to create a tourist attraction.
    17. It can be a cruel dilemma, but for many terminally ill patients there's another way: the hospice, an institution of mercy that has grown by leaps and bounds in the United States.
    18. "Without hospice, the financial impact would be absolutely enormous," he says.
    19. I just think he wanted to be with us." Generally, hospice care is for those who have been diagnosed by a physician as having six months or less to live.
    20. Dame Cicely, who in 1961 founded the London-based St. Christopher's hospice for the terminally ill, will split the Aristotelis prize for Man and Society with the Hellenic Spanish Dictionary.
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