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sanitarium

/san-i-tair-ee-uhm/US // ˌsæn ɪˈtɛər i əm //UK // (ˌsænɪˈtɛərɪəm) //

疗养院,庇护所,精神病院,疗养所

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural san·i·tar·i·ums, san·i·tar·i·a [san-i-tair-ee-uh]. /ˌsæn ɪˈtɛər i ə/.

    • : an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.

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Examples

  • I never made it all the way through the novel’s saga of Hans Castorp’s stay in a sanitarium for patients seeking treatment for tuberculosis.

  • One such home, in the city of Sochi, used to be a sanitarium.

  • Then I began to tell people at the sanitarium and wired my friends in Berlin advising them how to get out of Germany.

  • But I was comforted by the fact that though there were plenty of wealthy men in our sanitarium, they were all in the same box.

  • The other letter was addressed to the doctor at the sanitarium.

  • The official-looking letter was from a sanitarium in Indiana.

  • The question was, how soon must she leave the sanitarium and how proceed?

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