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/ˈhaʊsˌkiːpər/ · /ˈhaʊsˌkiːpə/
someone whose job is to manage the cleaning, cooking, and daily care of a house or hotel.
管家
複數 housekeepers
核心畫面
The word is house + keeper: the person who keeps a house running. Picture someone who knows where everything is, what needs washing, what needs buying, and when dinner has to be ready — not a guest, not the owner, but the one holding the daily running of the place together.
這個字就是 house（房子）＋ keeper（管理、照看的人）：讓一個家運轉起來的那個人。可以想成一個人知道東西放…更多收起
這個字就是 house（房子）＋ keeper（管理、照看的人）：讓一個家運轉起來的那個人。可以想成一個人知道東西放在哪、什麼該洗、什麼該買、晚餐幾點要好——他不是客人，也不是屋主，而是把這個地方的日常撐住的那個角色。範圍不只是打掃，還包括整體的張羅。原始詞典資料4 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。
housekeepernoun/ˈhaʊskipɚ/
- 1
Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc.
- She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up.
- The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.
- 2
Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
- 3
archaicSomeone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.
- I do assure you he is no house-keeper. I have seen him in desperate conflict with savage men, and even with His Majesty's redcoats.
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archaicSomeone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.
- He was often heard to express his fears of coming upon the parish; and to bless God, that, on account of his having been so long a housekeeper, he was intitled to that provision.
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。