喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˌrekriˈeɪʃən/休閒；遊憩

    正式an activity that you do for pleasure or amusement, often when you are not working.

    「recreation」是英文裡比較正式的「休閒／遊憩」——指你為了開心、放鬆而做的活動，常是戶外或身體活動，像散步、打球、爬山。leisure 比較像「空閒時間本身」；fun 比較口語、講「好玩」的感覺；recreation 常出現在公園標示、學校簡介、recreation facilities／recreation center 這類正式搭配。一種想法是：它就像讓自己「重新變有精神」——工作或課業之後，用開心的活動把自己補回來（字源 recreare 有 refresh 的意思）。

    示範例句 · Example

    The park is not just a place for recreation — it also has a small library.

    中文翻譯那座公園不只是一個供休閒的地方——它也有一間小圖書館。

    常見搭配

    • recreation facilities

      休閒／遊憩設施

      places or equipment for people to use to enjoy themselves

      The school added new recreation facilities behind the gym.

    • outdoor recreation

      戶外休閒／戶外遊憩

      enjoyable activities done outside

      The island is perfect for outdoor recreation such as kayaking.

    • recreation area / ground / center / room

      休閒區／遊憩場／休閒中心／康樂室

      a place set aside for people to play or enjoy themselves

      Kids played soccer in the recreation area after lunch.

    • for recreation

      作為休閒／供遊憩之用

      done so that people can enjoy themselves

      Families use the riverside path for recreation.

    • physical / active recreation

      體能／動態休閒

      recreation that uses your body, such as sports or games

      Swimming is popular physical recreation for the whole family.

    • recreation activities

      休閒活動

      things people do for enjoyment in free time

      The club offers recreation activities every Saturday morning.

    意思相反

    worklabortoil

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle English recreacion, from Middle French and Old French recreacion, from Latin recreātiō.

源自拉丁文 recreātiō，經古法文傳入英文。

Wiktionary

Picture the park on a Sunday: people walking, cycling, throwing a ball — none of it is work, and none of it has to be done. Recreation is the name for that whole category of doing-things-for-pleasure. One way to hold the word is to read it as re-creation, time that puts a person back together after work.

可以想成：星期天的公園，有人散步、騎車、丟球——沒有一件事是工作，也沒有一件事非做不可。recreation 就是替這一整類「為了開心而做的活動」取的名字。一個好記的想法是把它看成 re-creation：工作把人磨掉一些，這段時間再把人重新組回來。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

recreations

意思相反

worklabortoil

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

recreationnoun詞源 1/(ˌ)ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/

  • 1

    Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.

    • The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]
    • Mercury contents did not affect recreation persay but definitely could if found in fish tissue at high levels.

recreationnoun詞源 2/ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/

  • 1

    The process of creating something again.

  • 2

    The result of this process.

    • Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。