核心畫面

Think of things that count as one set. The clearest modern picture is a door in a bedroom wall: open it and your own bathroom is there, so the two rooms are not two separate places but one unit you have to yourself. Everything on this page is that idea seen from a different angle. Describe the small room and you get an en suite bathroom; describe the big one and you get a bedroom that is en suite; point at either as a thing and en suite becomes a noun. The older use drops the door altogether and keeps only the set: a hat and gloves made en suite belong together because they match, not because they touch.

「en suite」可以想成「屬於同一套的東西」。最好認的現代畫面是臥室牆上的那一扇門:推開就是自己的浴室,所以房間更多收起「en suite」可以想成「屬於同一套的東西」。最好認的現代畫面是臥室牆上的那一扇門:推開就是自己的浴室,所以房間和浴室不算兩個地方,而是你一個人的一組空間。這一頁上的每個用法,都是同一件事換個角度看。從浴室那邊講,就是 an en suite bathroom;從房間那邊講,就是 the room is en suite;直接把其中一個當成東西來指,它就變成名詞。比較舊的用法乾脆把門拿掉,只留下「同一套」這件事:帽子和手套 made en suite,是因為它們互相搭配,而不是因為它們連在一起。

From the word’s history

The source records only that the phrase was taken straight from French en suite; it is used in English as one unit, with neither word carrying the meaning on its own.

來源資料只記錄一件事:這個說法是直接從法文 en suite 借進英文的。它在英文裡整組使用,en 和 suite 不會各自拆開表達這個意思。除此之外,資料沒有給更多來歷,所以這裡也不多推測。

Wiktionary entry for 'en suite' (etymology field: 'From French en suite'), kaikki extract in the supplied evidence packet

One branch

臥室連著自己的浴室

這一組就是核心畫面本身:兩個空間被一扇門連成一套。四個用法的差別只在你從哪邊講、以及當形容詞還是名詞用。

adjective · B2

Used before 'bathroom', 'shower' or 'toilet' to say that it opens straight off a bedroom and belongs to that room, instead of standing out in a hallway where several rooms share it.

(浴室)與臥室相連的