搬不走的財產，和靠它吃飯的行業
先有那塊釘在原地的財產，才有替人買賣它的人。
noun · B2
Land and the buildings standing on it, thought of as property that someone owns and can buy, sell, or rent out. It is an uncountable noun.
不動產／房地產
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: property you cannot pick up and walk away with. A phone, a bike, a box of books can all leave with you; a field, a shop, an apartment building stay exactly where they are, and owning them means owning a fixed piece of the world. Because the piece is fixed, its position is everything — the same building is worth more beside a station than at the end of a quiet lane.
可以想成一種你搬不走的財產。手機、腳踏車、一箱書都能跟著你走；一塊地、一間店面、一棟公寓就釘在原地。擁有它們，等於擁…更多收起
可以想成一種你搬不走的財產。手機、腳踏車、一箱書都能跟著你走；一塊地、一間店面、一棟公寓就釘在原地。擁有它們，等於擁有世界上固定的一小塊。也因為釘在原地，位置就是一切——同樣一棟樓，蓋在車站旁邊和蓋在小巷底，價錢差很多。整個字的重量，都壓在這個「不能動」上面。From the word’s history
Wiktionary notes that real here is the legal sense, relating to immovable tangible property, a use it traces back to Latin reālis. So real estate is estate (property) of the kind that cannot be moved — exactly the image above.
Wiktionary 記載：這裡的 real 是法律上「與不能移動的有形財產有關」的那個意思，可以一路追到拉丁文的 reālis。所以 real estate 就是「不能移動的那種 estate（財產）」，跟上面的畫面正好對得起來；real 在這裡跟「真的假的」沒有關係。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:330830564:31622), etymology note for 'real estate'
One branch
原始詞典資料2 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。
real estatenoun/ˈɹiːl əˌsteɪt/
- 1
Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground on which they are built.
- They failed to find any investors for the construction of new real estate on the north side.
- The "Golden Horseshoe", the commercial and industrial end of Lake Ontario, is the most crowded real estate in Canada.
- 2
informalSpace used for a particular purpose.
- Virtual desktops allow you to stretch your screen real estate well beyond its normal size.
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。