英语释义

• confined usually by illness

片语

housebound housewife syndrome居家主妇综合癥

Housebound people困居家中者

The Housebound Spirit唱片名

housebound elderly居家老人

英汉例句

• by all accounts, these new centenarians are far from the frail, ailing, housebound people you might expect.

  据说，这些新百岁老人并非是你想象中那种体弱多病的足不出户者。

• she was forever running errands for her housebound grandmother.

  她总是在为她不方便外出的祖母跑前跑后。

• also, people who are dark-skinned or housebound or who live in far northern latitudes may fail to make enough vitamin d.

  肤色深的人，足不出户的人或是住在高纬度地区的人也可能无法制造足够的维他命d。

• deliver thanksgiving dinners to housebound people.

  给行动不便的人们送上感恩大餐。

• for the first weeks, housebound by paranoia but desperate to talk, gran would agree only to meetings on her doorstep.

  当他们彼此刚刚开始接触的第一个礼拜，gran偏执的不愿离家，同时又渴望倾诉，便在门口的阶梯上与tuszynska见面。

• newcastle, where he is chief librarian, is considering buying some e-book reading devices to lend to older, housebound residents.

  纽卡斯尔（newcastle），他当馆长的地方，正在考虑买进一些电子图书阅读设备以便借给那些年老的腿脚不便利的居民。

• objective to understand the status of housebound and its psychologic factor in community elderly of tangshan.

  目的了解河北省唐山市社区老年人居家不出状况及进行心理因素分析。

• he pointed out that e-books were not only cheaper, because of the lack of wear and tear and thefts, but they also offered great opportunities for older housebound readers.

  他指出，电子图书不仅因为不会被磨损、撕毁或者盗窃而廉价，而且它们更是给那些腿脚不便利的老年读者带来了福音。