攤著、什麼都不做
這一組就是核心畫面本身：身體鬆掉的那個姿勢，以及把它拉長成一段時間。
sit or lie lazily · verb · B1
to sit, lie, or stand in a very relaxed way, often almost lying down.
懶洋洋地坐／躺
核心畫面
Picture someone letting their whole body go loose — half sitting, half lying on a sofa, not going anywhere and not doing anything. That relaxed posture is where lounge starts. The rooms came later and took their name from the posture: a lounge is a place where people sit like that.
可以想成一個人整個身體鬆下來，半躺半坐地攤在沙發上，沒有要去哪裡，也沒有要做什麼。這個放鬆的姿勢就是 lounge …更多收起
可以想成一個人整個身體鬆下來，半躺半坐地攤在沙發上，沒有要去哪裡，也沒有要做什麼。這個放鬆的姿勢就是 lounge 最早的樣子。那些房間是後來才有的，名字是跟姿勢借的——lounge 就是「可以這樣待著的地方」。From the word’s history
The verb comes first: c. 1500 in Scottish English, 'to loll idly, act or rest lazily, move indolently if at all' (origin uncertain — possibly French s'allonger, or the obsolete noun lungis 'slow, lazy person'), with 'recline lazily' by about 1746. The noun is much later: 1806 'act of lounging', 1830 'couch on which one can lie at full length', 1881 'comfortable drawing room'. So the posture is nearly three centuries older than the room.
動詞比名詞早很多：lounge 約在 1500 年的蘇格蘭英語裡先有「懶懶地待著、動也不太想動」的意思（來源不確定，一說和法文 s'allonger 或舊字 lungis「慢吞吞的人」有關），1746 年前後有了「懶洋洋地半躺」。名詞晚得多——1806 年指「懶待這件事」，1830 年指「可以整個人躺平的長沙發」，到 1881 年才變成「舒服的起居室」。也就是說，先有那個姿勢，才有那些房間。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'lounge'
Three branches
家裡放鬆的那間房
房間跟著姿勢命名：家裡專門用來坐下來鬆一口氣的那一間。
living room · noun · B1
the main room in a house where people sit, relax, and often watch television (British English).
客廳；起居室
公共場所給人坐著放鬆的空間
同一間「可以攤著待著」的房間搬進飯店、機場、酒吧這些公共場所；共同點都是「不趕時間，可以坐一下」。
public sitting room · noun · B1
a public room in a hotel or other building where many people sit and relax.
休息室；休息廳
原始詞典資料9 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。
loungeverb/ˈlaʊ̯nd͡ʒ/
- 1
To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
- We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas.
- We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.
- 2
To walk or go in a leisurely manner.
- When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.
- As she lounged past Leila's car she cast an insolent glance at the Irish girl.
loungenoun/ˈlaʊ̯nd͡ʒ/
- 1
archaicA place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
- He […] prevailed on Captain Musgrave to introduce him to a family, where he supposed he might find a monstrous good lounge for the rest of the time he was to be quartered in the neighbourhood.
- Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies.
- 2
archaicA place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.
- 3
The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
- That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.
- 4
A room of a house for casual relaxing and entertaining.
- Near-synonyms: den, living room, sitting room, parlour, parlor, rec room
- Let's go hang out in the lounge.
- 5
A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
- 6
A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
- 7
An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
- Near-synonyms: bar, pub, divan; see also Thesaurus:pub
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。