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A housemate is someone you share a house with who is not in your family. You might share the kitchen, the bills, and the sitting room, but you usually each have your own bedroom. Friends, students, and young workers use it a lot for people they live with by choice, often to split the rent. Roommate is close. Though actually, in American English roommate can mean you share the same bedroom; housemate is clearer when you only share the house, not the bed and wardrobe.
室友、合租的人(台灣口語多說室友;若要強調不同房、只合住一棟,室友仍最常用)
原始詞典資料1 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。
housematenoun/ˈhaʊsˌmeɪt/
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Someone living in the same house.
- ‘“Housemate”,’ he repeated, disdainfully. ‘What does this word imply?’ ‘That we are two unpartnered people, sharing the cost of the rent on a house, and are not romantically involved.’
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。