喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the doors along one street, or along one hallway. Yours is here, and the very next one is a single step away, with nothing in between. That one step is the whole word. From it you get the place behind that door, the people behind that door, and a handy way to fix where some other building sits.

可以想成一整排門：你家的門，然後緊接著的下一扇。next door 就是那「下一扇」——只隔一道牆，中間沒有別間。這…更多收起可以想成一整排門：你家的門，然後緊接著的下一扇。next door 就是那「下一扇」——只隔一道牆，中間沒有別間。這一步的距離就是這個詞的全部。從這個畫面長出三種用法：那扇門後面的位置、那扇門後面的人，以及拿它來定位另一棟建築。

Two branches

緊鄰的那一間（位置）

最貼近核心畫面的一組：講的就是「下一扇門」本身所在的位置。

r · A2

In or to the house, flat, room, office, or shop that is right beside yours, or right beside the one you are talking about. It can also follow a noun, as in the boy next door or the café next door.

隔壁

那扇門後面的人

從位置換成住在裡面的人。英文常把地方直接拿來代稱裡面的人，這裡就是那個門牌變成了那家人。

noun · B1

The people who live in the house or flat right beside yours. Used as a noun on its own, usually with no word in front of it: next door's cat, ask next door.

隔壁那家人

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。

next dooradv

  • 1

    In an adjacent building, room or place.

    • He lives next door but one (= two houses from mine).
    • "Yeh know Tom Jamison, he lives next door t' me up home.

next dooradj

  • 1

    That is in an adjacent place; that is located next door.

    • Try the place next door.

next doorprep

  • 1

    dialectalNext door to.

    • Next door the kirk was an olden tower, built in the time of the Roman Catholics [...].

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。