喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a wide piece of land with cattle on it and several buildings standing around: barns, sheds, stables, and one building where the family actually lives. That last one is the ranch house. It sits low and spreads sideways, because there is land to spare and no reason to build upward. Hold on to that low, wide, one-floor shape, because it is the part of the picture that later became a name for a kind of house anywhere at all.

可以想成一片很大的地，上面有牛，也散落著好幾棟建築：穀倉、工具間、馬廄，還有一棟是人真正住的。最後那一棟就是 ran…更多收起可以想成一片很大的地，上面有牛，也散落著好幾棟建築：穀倉、工具間、馬廄，還有一棟是人真正住的。最後那一棟就是 ranch house。它蓋得很低、往橫向拉開，因為地很大，沒必要往上疊。把「低、寬、一層樓」這個樣子記住，因為後來就是這個形狀被拿去當成一種住宅款式的名字，不管房子蓋在哪裡。