王室居住的宮殿
核心那一面，以及用建築代指裡面的人。
royal residence · noun · B1
The official home of a king, queen, or other very important ruler.
宮殿
核心畫面
Picture a huge official building with gates and gardens, where a king or queen lives and where the business of the crown gets done. Two things follow. Because the building stands for the people inside it, news reports can say the Palace said when they mean the royal household. And because it is the picture of , any very grand house can be called a palace.
可以想成：一棟巨大的官方建築，有大門、有庭園，國王或女王住在裡面，王室的事務也在裡面處理。由此長出兩件事。一是建築可…更多收起
可以想成：一棟巨大的官方建築，有大門、有庭園，國王或女王住在裡面，王室的事務也在裡面處理。由此長出兩件事。一是建築可以代表裡面的人，所以新聞說 the Palace said 時，指的是王室方面；二是它就是「氣派」的代表畫面，所以任何極為華麗的宅邸也可以被叫做 palace。Two branches
氣派華麗的大宅
借宮殿的氣派來形容別的建築：不是真的王室住所，而是大到、華麗到讓人聯想到宮殿。
grand mansion · noun · B1
A very large, grand, and beautifully decorated house or building.
豪華宅邸
原始詞典資料6 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。
palacenoun/ˈpælɪs/
- 1
Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
- 2
A large and lavishly ornate residence.
- On Madame de Mercœur's arrival at the palace she found the carriage and guards in waiting, the Queen having decided that she would do her niece the honour of going to meet her.
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway,[…].
- 3
A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions.
palaceverb/ˈpælɪs/
- 1
archaicTo decorate or ornate.
- And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean.
- May, with her green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms, her song-birds making the orchards and meadows vocal, and rippling streams and cultivated gardens; June, with full-blown roses and humming-bees, plenteous meadows and wide cornfields, with embattled lines rising thick and green; August, with reddened orchards and heavy-headed harvests of grain, October, with yellow leaves and swart shadows; December, palaced in snow, and idly whistling through his numb fingers;-all have their various charm; and in the rose-bowers of summer, and as we spread our hands before the torches of winter, we say joyfully, "Thou hast made all things beautiful in their time."
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。