核心畫面
The word says exactly what it is: bed + room, the room in a home where the bed goes and where you sleep. It is also the most private room in the house - shut the door and the rest of the world stays outside. That private feeling is what the word's one extended use borrows.
這個字拼起來就是它的意思:bed(床)+ room(房間),家裡放床、拿來睡覺的那一間。它同時也是家中最私人的一個房…更多收起
這個字拼起來就是它的意思:bed(床)+ room(房間),家裡放床、拿來睡覺的那一間。它同時也是家中最私人的一個房間——門一關,外面的世界就進不來。可以想成 bedroom 帶著這層「私密、親密」的味道,而它少數的延伸用法借的正是這一層。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bedroomnoun/ˈbɛdɹuːm/
- 1
A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
- Please don't enter my bedroom without knocking.
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
- 2
The location of sexual activity.
- "How are things in the bedroom?" asked the marriage therapist.
- If you’re single, you might be going through a dry spell, or if you’re taken, life in the bedroom has become more routine and less of a spontaneous, fun activity.
- 3
obsoleteThe room atop of a bed suitable for sleeping on.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。