核心畫面
Picture someone with no place of their own to go back to at night — no front door to close, no room that is theirs. 'Homeless' is just that: home + less, a life with the 'home' part taken away.
可以想成一個人晚上沒有一個屬於自己、可以回去的地方——沒有一扇能關上的門，沒有一個房間是他的。homeless 就是…更多收起
可以想成一個人晚上沒有一個屬於自己、可以回去的地方——沒有一扇能關上的門，沒有一個房間是他的。homeless 就是 home（家）加上 -less（少了、沒有），把『家』這一塊拿掉的狀態。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。
homelessadj/ˈhoʊmlɪs/
- 1
Lacking a permanent place of residence.
- Whenever I pass the park, I see the homeless people sleeping on the benches.
- Xinyang special region received 1,200-1,400 mm of rain between June and August 1956: 280,000 homes were destroyed and 3.2 million peasants (out of a total of almost 6 million) were left homeless. In the most affected county in the special region and the province, Huaibin, 60 percent of the total surface area was covered by floods and 230,000 out of 440,000 inhabitants left homeless; grain production fell by 66 percent in 1956 and the authorities had to send large amounts of relief.
- 2
Containing no place that might be called home.
- But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]
homelessnoun/ˈhoʊmlɪs/
- 1
offensiveA person who is homeless.
- Oszlár Kálmán András, Yoga in the Bed: Tantric Continence & Spiritual Intimacy […] the jobseekers and homelesses or even the future prime minister, all of us are involved in formation of the new world.
- […] homelesses' due process rights and infringed upon the homelesses' fundamental right to travel […]
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。