sickroom
/sik-room, -room/US // ˈsɪkˌrum, -ˌrʊm //UK // (ˈsɪkˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) //
病房,医疗室,病室,卫生间
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a room in which a sick person is confined.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as ininfirmary
as insick bay
Examples
"I'm going out and let you sleep," Braceway insisted, displaying the average man's feeling of absolute helplessness in a sickroom.
He ignores the individuality of the room; the ball-room and the sickroom are lighted alike.
It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom.
It is not the stillness of a summer night in the country, nor of a church, nor of a sickroom: it is the silence of death!
A spell seemed, indeed, to rest on all things, which had in it more than the watchful hush of the ordinary sickroom.
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