| 释义 |
ˈrooming, vbl. n.
[f. room v.2]
1. a. The letting of rooms to lodgers. b. The occupying or sharing of rooms. Chiefly attrib. See also rooming-house
1959Listener 11 June 1012/1 Houses that are now usually converted into rooming apartments of inconvenient character. 1967Economist 21 Oct. 264/2 The crowded rooming areas of central London. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 41/1 (Advt.), Large family home 8 rooms huge kitchen 2 washrooms garage, walk-out basement to backyard. Perfect area for rooming. 1970Cape Times 28 Oct. 20/2 (Advt.), Fine 7-roomed residence. Excellent rooming proposition. Fully furnished. 1977Rolling Stone 5 May 50/1, I already have the rooming list.
2. rooming-in orig. U.S. (see quot. 1947); also transf. (see quot. 1978) and attrib.
1946Mod. Hospital Dec. 44/2 Three Detroit hospitals..have been..experimenting in certain selected cases with a ‘rooming-in’ plan which permits the mother to have her baby at her bedside. 1947Jackson & Thoms in Connecticut State Med. Jrnl. XI. 175/1 Rooming-in is a term applied to that form of hospitalization where mother and newborn baby room together and in which the mother takes as much care of the baby as possible. 1950N.Y. Times 30 Dec. 16/2 About 75 per cent of expectant mothers who plan to have their babies at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital..now are requesting the rooming-in plan whereby they may keep their babies with them instead of having them cared for in the hospital nursery... Rooming-in is preferred by more women with higher education and by women with husbands in upper occupational classifications. 1960F. W. Goodrich Maternity vii. 103 Most ideal rooming-in set-ups make some provision for the baby to be returned to the nursery when the mother so desires. 1965Nursing Times 5 Feb. 182/1 The siting of a nursery far distant from the wards added to the difficulties of the staff in spite of the fact that rooming-in was practised. 1974G. B. Lipkin Psychosocial Aspects of Maternal-Child Nursing x. 56/1 The nurses in the rooming-in unit stress their function as instructors in child care. 1978Who's Who 1934/1 A ‘Rooming-In’ hospital for mother nursing of infants and small children with congenital defects requiring plastic surgery. |