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Domesticity is home life — the everyday life of a household: cooking, family, staying in, the small routines of a house. If someone “enjoys domesticity,” they like being at home with their family more than going out.
Domesticity is home lifedomesticity指的是家庭生活 the everyday life of a household一個家庭的日常生活 cooking, family, staying in, the small routines of a house煮飯、家人、待在家裡,還有生活中的小習慣 If someone enjoys domesticity如果有人說自己enjoys domesticity(享受居家生活) they like being at home with their family more than going out表示他們比較喜歡跟家人待在家裡,而不是出門
It is a slightly word. Teenagers almost never say it; novels, essays, and a certain kind of newspaper writing do.
It is a slightly bookish word這是一個有點書卷氣的詞 Teenagers almost never say it青少年幾乎不會說 novels, essays, and a certain kind of newspaper writing do小說、散文,還有某一類的報紙文章才會用
Though actually, the feeling around it is not always the same. Some people say it with warmth, as if domesticity were safety and care. Others use it as if it were a small, boxed-in life, the opposite of adventure.
Though actually, the feeling around it is not always the same不過其實這個字帶的感覺不一定都一樣 Some people say it with warmth有些人講起來帶著溫暖 as if domesticity were safety and care好像domesticity代表的是安全和照顧 Others use it as if it were a small, boxed-in life有些人講起來卻像是一種狹小、被困住的生活 the opposite of adventure跟冒險完全相反
The tidy meaning is simply “life at home with your family.” Just know it can sound or a little trapped, depending who is talking.
The tidy meaning is simply簡單來說,這個字乾淨的意思就是 life at home with your family「跟家人一起在家的生活」 Just know it can sound cosy or a little trapped只是要知道,聽起來可能溫馨,也可能有點被困住 depending who is talking要看是誰在說
It has nothing to do with taming animals, even though it looks like .
It has nothing to do with taming animals它跟馴養動物沒有關係 even though it looks like domesticate雖然它看起來很像domesticate(馴化)
組成domestic(家裡的)+ -ity(做成「那種狀態/性質」的名詞)
同家族的字
- domesticthe adjective this noun is built from
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。
domesticitynoun
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Life at home; homelife.
- The Neolithic of 8000 to 6000 B.C. is in the sign of Cancer, a feminine sign associated with domesticity, retentiveness, and sentiment.
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Domestic chores; housework.
- Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
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Affection for the home and its comforts.
- Duncan's lovelife may be divided between an earlier period of promiscuity and a later period of domesticity.
- As we have seen, Browning renovates her life-after-divorce by framing her domesticity in increasingly autoerotic terms. With her sensuous boudoir, lust for furniture, love affair with houses, and espousal of baked goods, hers is an appetitive domesticity geared to self-pleasure.
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。