The patient lay quietly on his bed in the medical ward. 病人安静地躺在内科病房的床上。
The hospital wards were fumigated after the outbreak of typhus. 发现斑疹伤寒以後, 医院的病房进行了烟熏消毒.
Ward \Ward\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warding}.] [OE. wardien, AS. weardian to keep, protect; akin to OS. ward?n to watch, take care, OFries. wardia, OHG. wart?n, G. warten to wait, wait on, attend to, Icel. var?a to guarantee defend, Sw. v[*a]rda to guard, to watch; cf. OF. warder, of German origin. See {Ward}, n., and cf. {Award}, {Guard}, {Reward}.] 1. To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same. --Spenser.
2. To defend; to protect.
Tell him it was a hand that warded him From thousand dangers. --Shak.
3. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.]
4. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again. --Daniel.
The pointed javelin warded off his rage. --Addison.
It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections. --I. Watts.