ward:

n. 病房；保卫；监视；区，选区

vt. 避开；保卫；守护

The nurse took the sick child into the surgical ward.

护士把患病儿童带进了手术病房。

This girl who lost her parents is my ward.

这个失去双亲的女孩是我的受监护对象。

The ward received forty patients in one day.

一天之内医院接收了40个病人。

wards:

n. [医] 病房（ward的复数）；守卫；受监护的未成年人；监禁

v. 守卫；避开（ward的第三人称单数形式）I've grown up wandering the wards of Broadmoor.

我是在布罗德莫精神病院的病房里长大的。

He came out so fast he fell over back-wards.

它很快就出来了，是仰面朝天摔出来的。

Some improvements in isolation wards are planned.

已计划对隔离病房作出某些改进。

-ward 构成形容词

eastward 向东的

homeward 回家去的

-wards构成副词

onwards 向前