地方有家的味道：樸素所以放鬆（英式）
這一支最貼近核心畫面：畫面裡的那個房間本身。東西舊、不成套，但你一坐下就鬆了。
adjective · B2
Of a place, or of the feeling inside it: plain and simple in a way that makes you comfortable, the way an ordinary home does. Used in British English.
溫馨舒適
核心畫面
Think of an ordinary home, not a photograph of one: chairs that do not match, a rug that has been walked on for years, a kettle that is always warm. Nothing in the picture is new, styled or on display. That plainness is the whole image, and English has read it in two opposite ways. Read it as comfort and homely becomes a compliment — the room relaxes you, the person relaxes you, the household holds together. Read it as nothing-special and homely becomes a remark about a face with nothing striking in it. Same picture, two readings, and which one a listener takes depends mostly on where they learned their English.
homely 的核心畫面可以想成一個真正住著人的家，而不是樣品屋的照片：椅子不成套，地毯被踩了很多年，水壺永遠是溫的…更多收起
homely 的核心畫面可以想成一個真正住著人的家，而不是樣品屋的照片：椅子不成套，地毯被踩了很多年，水壺永遠是溫的。畫面裡沒有一樣東西是新的、講究的、擺出來給人看的。這份「樸素」就是整個畫面。英文後來把它讀成兩個相反的方向。往「讓人放鬆」讀，homely 就是稱讚：房間讓你自在，人讓你自在。往「沒什麼特別」讀，homely 就變成在說一張沒有亮點的臉。同一張畫面，兩種讀法，聽的人會選哪一種，多半看他在哪裡學的英語。From the word’s history
The supplied source traces homely to Middle English homly, hoomly, hamely and to Old English *hāmlīċ, and describes it as home plus -ly. The same source records the Middle English word as already meaning both domestic and plain or unattractive, so the two modern readings are both old.
本次證據裡的 Wiktionary 記載：homely 來自中古英文 homly／hoomly／hamely，再往上是古英文 *hāmlīċ，等於 home 加 -ly，也就是「屬於家的」。同一筆資料也寫到，中古英文那個字當時就同時有「家常的、熟悉的」和「樸素、不好看」的意思。所以今天英式和美式的分歧，不是後來才吵起來的，而是這個字本來就帶著兩面。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:708177525:21535)
Three branches
人有家的味道：好相處、把家放前面
同一份樸素從房間長到人身上：不擺架子、不講排場，待在他旁邊就像在自己家。
adjective · B2
Of a person: warm and friendly, and happy with ordinary home life, so that other people feel relaxed with them. Used in British English.
親切愛家
美式的那一面：樸素到不出色
核心畫面的另一種讀法。把「沒有一樣東西是為了好看而擺的」讀成「沒有亮點」，稱讚就變成了評論。
adjective · B2
Plain-looking; not pretty or handsome. In American English this is said about a person or a person's face, and it is a soft-sounding word but not a compliment.
長相平凡