- 1n/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃmən/man from England英格蘭男子
A man who is from England, either because he was born there, because his family is from there, or because he became a citizen of it.
Englishman 指的是英格蘭的男性。英格蘭只是英國的一部分。英國還包含蘇格蘭、威爾斯和北愛爾蘭。所以它不等於中文常說的「英國人」。一個來自格拉斯哥的男生是 British，但他是 Scotsman。把他叫成 Englishman，對方通常會糾正你。女生說 Englishwoman。兩個人以上說 Englishmen。要講一整群人，現在多半直接說 English people。
示範例句 · Example
The man in the next seat was an Englishman on his way home to London.
中文翻譯隔壁座位的那個男人是一個正在回倫敦路上的英格蘭男子。
England is one country inside the United Kingdom. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the other three. So an Englishman is not simply a man from the UK: a man from Glasgow is British, but he is a Scotsman, and calling him an Englishman is usually taken as a mistake. The word names one man. For a woman you say Englishwoman, and for more than one man you say Englishmen. In older books Englishmen sometimes covers a whole mixed group; most writers today say English people for that.
常見搭配
a typical Englishman
典型的英格蘭男子
a man who behaves in the way people expect an English man to behave
He drinks tea all day and talks about the weather, like a typical Englishman.
a true Englishman
道地的英格蘭人
a man seen as showing the qualities people link with England
He queued in the rain without complaining, like a true Englishman.
an Englishman abroad
在外國的英格蘭人
an English man living or travelling outside England
He writes a blog about life as an Englishman abroad.
意思相近
English person
用法接近
- 2n/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃmən/an Englishman's home is his castle家就是自己的城堡
A saying used to mean that a person's own home is a private place, where they can do as they like and nobody outside has the right to tell them what to do.
這是一句英式的固定說法。整句一起用，字不太能換。意思是：在自己家裡，別人管不著。門一關，這裡就像一座城堡。你想怎麼過就怎麼過。常用在有人想干涉你家裡的事的時候。語氣偏舊，也常帶一點玩笑。它講的是每個人的家，不是只有英格蘭人。美式英文比較常說 a man's home is his castle。
This is a fixed British saying: you say the whole line, and the words stay as they are. People reach for it when someone's right to be left alone at home is the point, such as shutting the door on the world, refusing to let someone in, or doing something at home that other people find odd. The tone is a little old, and it is often said half as a joke. The saying is about anyone's home, not only an Englishman's, and American speakers usually say a man's home is his castle instead.
常見搭配
as they say, an Englishman's home is his castle
俗話說，家就是自己的城堡
a way of bringing the saying into what you are talking about
As they say, an Englishman's home is his castle, so I closed the curtains and ignored them.