N-UNCOUNT 寄宿;借宿 If you are provided with lodging or lodgings, you are provided with a place to stay for a period of time. You can use lodgings to refer to one or more of these places.
He was given free lodging in a three-room flat. 他得以在一间三室公寓里免费住宿。
...travel expenses including meals and lodgings while traveling away from home. 旅费包括离家在外的食宿费
N-COUNT 寄宿舍;租住的房间 If you live in lodgings, you live in a room or rooms in someone's house and you pay them for this.
David had changed his lodgings, leaving no address behind... 戴维换了一间租屋,没留下地址。
Many of the single men found lodgings in the surrounding villages. 许多单身汉在周围的村子里租房居住。