housed
housed — 動詞
- housedpresent simple I / you / we / they
- houseds3rd person singular
- houseding-ing form
- housededpast simple
1. gave somebody somewhere to stay — usually as a planned arrangement by an organis
安置；收容
提供住處給某人或動物
gave somebody somewhere to stay — usually as a planned arrangement by an organisation, a city, or a household — so that people or animals had shelter and a roof over their head.
The city housed three hundred earthquake survivors in a converted school gym for two months.
市政府將三百名地震災民安置在一座改建的學校體育館裡長達兩個月。
passive-friendly: housed + people + in + place
After the floods, Dewi's family was housed in a small wooden cabin near the river.
洪水過後，Dewi 一家被安置在河邊的一間小木屋裡。
passive: be housed in + place
The animal shelter has housed over four thousand abandoned dogs since it opened in 2010.
這家動物收容所自二〇一〇年開幕以來，已經收容超過四千隻被遺棄的狗。
Kevin housed two exchange students from Seoul in his spare bedroom last summer.
Kevin 去年夏天讓兩位來自首爾的交換學生住在他的空房間裡。
Refugees from the conflict were housed at a former army base outside the town.
這場衝突的難民被安置在城外一座廢棄的軍事基地。
- accommodated
more formal; emphasises providing space rather than a long-term home
- sheltered
emphasises protection from danger or weather, often temporary
- lodged
formal or older usage; usually short-term paid stay
文法句型
house + somebody
be housed in / at + place
用法筆記
Frequently appears in the passive (be housed in / at), especially in news writing about displaced people, students, or animals. Subject of the active form is usually an institution (a city, school, shelter, charity) rather than a single person.
常見錯誤
2. held an object, machine, collection, or organisation inside a building, case, or
容納；裝設
把某物收放在建築物或容器內
held an object, machine, collection, or organisation inside a building, case, or other structure that surrounded it and kept it safe.
The old chapel housed a collection of seventeenth-century manuscripts before the fire of 1998.
在一九九八年的那場大火之前，這座老教堂收藏了一批十七世紀的手稿。
building + housed + collection
Cyrus discovered that the wooden box housed his grandfather's gold pocket watch.
Cyrus 發現那個木盒裡裝著祖父的金懷錶。
container + housed + object
The factory was housed in a long red-brick building beside the canal.
那座工廠設在運河旁一棟長長的紅磚建築裡。
Tiny silicon chips housed the entire memory of the original spacecraft computer.
極小的矽晶片容納了原始太空船電腦的全部記憶體。
For decades, the museum's prehistoric bones were housed in glass cases on the second floor.
數十年來，博物館的史前骨骼一直陳列在二樓的玻璃櫃裡。
文法句型
house + something
be housed in + container / building
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: here the object is a thing (machine, collection, document, organ), not a person or animal. Often appears in passive 'was/were housed in', especially when describing where institutions, exhibits, or hardware are physically located.
常見錯誤
housed — 形容詞
- housedpositive
- housedercomparative
- housedestsuperlative
1. having been given a place to live, often used in social-policy or news writing t
有住處的
已獲得居住安排的，常帶副詞修飾
having been given a place to live, often used in social-policy or news writing to describe whether people have proper homes or are still without one.
Newly housed families in the district receive a small grant for furniture and kitchen basics.
本區新獲安置的家庭可以領取一筆購買家具和廚房用品的小額補助。
attributive: newly housed + people
Many of the city's elderly residents remain poorly housed despite the new building programme.
儘管有新的建房計畫，城裡許多年長居民的居住條件仍然很差。
predicative: be + poorly housed
Isabela works with adequately housed but financially struggling tenants in the south of the city.
Isabela 服務的對象是城南那些有基本住處、但經濟拮据的房客。
The charity reports that over two thousand previously homeless people are now stably housed.
該慈善機構表示，已有超過兩千名原本無家可歸的人現在有了穩定的住所。
- sheltered
broader; includes temporary shelter, not only permanent homes
- accommodated
more formal; focuses on the arrangement of space
文法句型
newly / properly / poorly housed + people
be housed in + conditions
用法筆記
Almost always carries an adverb (newly, poorly, badly, adequately, properly, stably) that grades the quality of the housing situation. Without such an adverb, the form sounds like the past participle of the verb instead.