喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a house with a staircase in it and you standing at the top: downstairs is the whole lower part of that picture — the direction you go, the place you end up, and, when you put "the" in front of it, the rooms themselves.

可以想成：一間有樓梯的房子，你站在樓梯上頭。downstairs 就是這個畫面裡下面的那一半——可以是你走的方向，也…更多收起可以想成：一間有樓梯的房子，你站在樓梯上頭。downstairs 就是這個畫面裡下面的那一半——可以是你走的方向，也可以是你人在的位置，加上 the 之後還可以直接指下面那幾個房間。同一個字兼了副詞和名詞兩種身分，看它前面有沒有 the 就分得出來。

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。

downstairsadj/daʊnˈstɛɹz/

  • 1

    Located on a lower floor.

    • The kids sleep in the downstairs bedroom; we sleep in the upstairs one.

downstairsadv/daʊnˈstɛɹz/

  • 1

    Down the stairs.

    • I have to walk downstairs to leave the building.
    • The lodger lives downstairs.
  • 2

    In or to hell.

  • 3

    slangRegarding the genitalia.

    • something wrong downstairs

downstairsnoun/daʊnˈstɛɹz/

  • 1

    The lower floor of a house, at ground level, or sometimes below.

    • We looked over the house; downstairs was spacious, but upstairs really cramped.
  • 2

    The lower floor of a house, at ground level, or sometimes below.

    • The family tried to ignore gossip from downstairs.
    • Now the two of them rattled around in the old house, even with his office and small clinic sharing the downstairs with the kitchen, parlor, and dining room.
  • 3

    slangThe genitalia.

    • The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs.

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。