a building that provides cheap accommodation and sometimes meals to students, workers or travellers 宿舍，招待所（提供廉价食宿服务） We stayed at a student hostel during the conference. 会议期间我们住在一处学生公寓里。 Hostel accommodation is provided for the seasonal workers. 为季节工人提供宿舍。
Extra ExamplesTopics Buildingsb1, Holidaysb1All we could afford was dormitory-style accommodation at a hostel. 我们能负担得起的只有宿舍式的宿舍。 Hostels in the city cost about $10 a night. 城里的招待所每晚约10元。 The building had been used as a student hostel. 这座楼曾被用作学生宿舍。 There were several backpacker hostels in that part of the town. 镇上的那个地方有几家背包客旅馆。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- student
- youth
- stay at
- accommodation
- accommodations
- at a/the hostel
- (British English) (also shelter North American English, British English)
a building, usually run by a charity, where people who have no home can stay for a short time 临时收容所；慈善收容所 He lives in a hostel for the homeless. 他住在一家流浪者收容所里。
Extra Examplesa probation hostel for young offenders 缓刑少年犯居留所 homeless families staying in bed and breakfast hostels 待在提供住宿和早餐的收容所中的无处栖身的家庭
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- refugee
- bed-and-breakfast
- bail
- …
- stay at
- stay in
- in a/the hostel
Word OriginMiddle English (in the general sense ‘lodging, place to stay)’ : from Old French, from medieval Latin hospitale, neuter of Latin hospitalis ‘hospitable’, from hospes, hospit- ‘host, guest’.