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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。