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A manse is the house a Christian minister lives in, especially in Scotland and in Presbyterian churches. It is a working home tied to the church, often the old stone house next to the kirk, not a palace. You will meet it in Scottish stories, church history, and place-names; it is not the usual word in England, where people more often say or rectory for a similar idea. Though actually, it is a cousin of manor and mansion — all of them go back to a Latin word for staying and dwelling — but in real speech a manse is much smaller and plainer than a mansion. Do not picture a huge estate.
牧師宅、牧師館(尤指蘇格蘭)
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。
manseverb詞源 1/mæns/
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To excommunicate; curse.
mansenoun詞源 2/mæns/
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A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.
- He has caught a glint of steel in the manse gateway, but it is only the minister's bicycle still chained to the trunk of a monkeypuzzle tree as a precaution against unchristian covetousness.
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archaicA family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.
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A large house, a mansion.
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。