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A ménage is all the people who live in one house — the household, not the walls. English took the word from French, and it still sounds French: a little literary, a little . In ordinary talk, people say household, family, or the people who live there. Though actually, many English speakers hardly use ménage alone. They know it from ménage à trois, a set phrase for three people in one romantic life together. If you say ménage in a casual room, some listeners will jump to that phrase first, even when you only meant everyone under this roof. Use it when you want a slightly noun for the household; do not expect it to feel neutral.
家戶、同住的一群人（文雅法語借詞；多數人只聽過 ménage à trois）
組成Borrowed from French ménage (household). English had also borrowed an earlier form in Middle English (menage); today's spelling and feel are the later French one.
原始詞典資料3 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。
ménagenoun/mɛˈnɑːʒ/
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A household; a domestic situation.
- "Oh," cried her ladyship, "I see the whole ménage; they will take a first floor over a baker's shop, to save fire, and live upon red herrings during the week, with a mutton chop by way of meat on a Sunday."
- It smelled of ether and something else, possibly laudanum. I had never tried the mixture but it seemed to go pretty well with the Geiger ménage.
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A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments.
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A group of people in a sexual relationship; especially, such a group that live together; the relationship itself.
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。