小家：家庭與家中
這一組緊貼核心畫面：直接講「屬於這個家」——家庭生活、家裡用的東西、愛持家的人、甚至家裡僱用的人與家中的爭吵。
family/home-related · adjective · B2
Connected to family life and to things that happen at home.
家庭的
核心畫面
You can picture domestic as everything that belongs to the home — the house, the family, the cooking and cleaning inside its walls. From that one warm centre the word fans out two ways: a small home (your family) and a big home (your own country, treated as one household).
可以把 domestic 想成「屬於家的一切」——這棟房子、這個家庭、以及四壁之內的煮飯掃除。從這個溫暖的中心，這個…更多收起
可以把 domestic 想成「屬於家的一切」——這棟房子、這個家庭、以及四壁之內的煮飯掃除。從這個溫暖的中心，這個字往兩個方向展開：一個小家（你的家庭），一個大家（你自己的國家，被當成一戶人看）。From the word’s history
Latin 'domus' = house/home; 'domesticus' = belonging to the household. Both 'family/home' senses and the 'within one country' sense trace back to this single idea of the house.
拉丁文 domus 是「房子、家」，domesticus 是「屬於這個家的」。不論是「家庭、家用」還是「一國之內」，都可以追回這個「房子」的原意。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'domestic' < Latin domesticus < domus 'house'
Three branches
大家：一國之內
把「家」放大來看：一個國家也可以想成一個大家庭。「在自家門內」就是「在本國之內」，跟外面的國家無關。
within one country · adjective · B2
Happening inside one country and not connected to any other countries.
國內的
被人養在家邊的動物
還是「屬於這個家」，只是這次屬於家的是動物：被人養在農場或家裡、不是野生的。
domestic animal · adjective · B2
A domestic animal lives on a farm or in someone's home, not in the wild.
家養的
原始詞典資料7 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。
domesticadj/dəˈmɛs.tɪk/
- 1
Of or relating to the home.
- 2
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
- domestic violence; domestic hot water
- The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse.
- 3
Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
- It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- 4
Internal to a specific country.
- domestic terrorism
- The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
- 5
Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.
- “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- Homosexual men were non-warlike and homosexual women non-domestic, so that their energies sought different outlets from those of ordinary men and women; they became the initiators of new activities.
domesticnoun/dəˈmɛs.tɪk/
- 1
A maid or household servant.
- It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him.
- Her fears thus prevailing, she communicated them to her mother as soon as the object of them had retired, who not in the least participating in them, they gradually subsided; but for an interval only, for, when retired to her chamber, during the hours of repose, every sound intimidated her; the growling of their faithful dog, or a halfsuppressed bark, brought the looks of the new domestic again before her sight.
- 2
informalA domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.
- 2005, Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website athttps://web.archive.org/web/20060618212243/http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/boards/dv_whatcom042505.pdf on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
- Nobody wanted to join the 'Cardigan Squad' – so-called because Child Protection officers were seen as woolly, glorified social workers that mopped up after domestics.
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。