核心畫面

One roof, and everybody living under it — counted as a single unit, whether or not they are all related.

household 的核心畫面可以想成「一個屋簷底下,住在一起的那一群人算成一戶」。它跟 family 的差別就在這更多收起household 的核心畫面可以想成「一個屋簷底下,住在一起的那一群人算成一戶」。它跟 family 的差別就在這裡:family 看的是血緣和關係,household 看的是「同住、共用一個家的開銷」。三個合租的室友是一個 household,但不是一個 family;嫁到外地的女兒是 family,卻不算在這個 household 裡。

Two branches

一戶人家,以及這一戶要用的東西

先是那群人,再是這群人過日子所需要的東西——同一個屋簷,一個看人、一個看物。

people in a home · noun · B2

Everyone under one roof, treated as one group, related or not.

一家人 / 家戶

每一戶都認得

這裡把「一戶」當成計算普及程度的單位:不是幾個人知道,而是家家戶戶都知道。一戶的畫面被放大成整個社會的每一戶。

a household name · adjective · B2

So well known that almost everyone has heard of it — used in the phrase 'a household name'.

家喻戶曉的

原始詞典資料8 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。

Householdname

  • 1

    A surname.

householdnoun/ˈhaʊshəʊld/

  • 1

    All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

    • And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.
    • Shih Hung-pi was born a pauper at a poor household in Suichung County, Liaoning. He suffered untold misery in the old society. Then he joined the PLA.
  • 2

    Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.

  • 3

    Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.

  • 4

    obsoleteA line of ancestry; a race or house.

    • In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

householdadj/ˈhaʊshəʊld/

  • 1

    Belonging to the same house and family.

  • 2

    Found in or having its origin in a home.

    • Whether boarding an airplane with underwear on your face to protest mask requirements, injecting yourself with horse dewormer instead of a safe and effective vaccine or swallowing household disinfectants because the President of the United States unironically suggested that it might help, the pandemic has amplified the frequency and tenor of ridiculous and sometimes alarming behavior.
  • 3

    Widely known to the public; familiar.

    • a household word; a household name
    • Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he’ll remember with advantages What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。