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Picture a small wooden room with a stove of hot stones in one corner. The air is so hot and dry that your skin starts to sweat within a minute. People sit on the low benches, say little, and come out feeling loose and clean. The word points first at that room — and then, because the point of the room is the time you spend inside it, at the sitting itself.
可以想成：一間小小的木頭房間，角落有一爐燒燙的石頭，空氣熱到一坐下皮膚就開始冒汗。大家安靜地坐在木板凳上，出來時整個…更多收起
可以想成：一間小小的木頭房間，角落有一爐燒燙的石頭，空氣熱到一坐下皮膚就開始冒汗。大家安靜地坐在木板凳上，出來時整個人是鬆的。sauna 最先指的是那個「房間」；而因為進去的重點其實是待在裡面的那段時間，它也就自然拿來指「洗三溫暖」這件事本身。原始詞典資料5 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。
saunanoun/ˈsɔː.nə/
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A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
- The hotel has a sauna in the basement.
- Of course, it will never get -100 here like it does in Antarctica, but a 300-degree swing was still theoretically possible on a record-cold Minnesota morning–if we got the sauna hot enough.
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The act of using a sauna.
- John had a sauna after his swim.
- Joanne went for a sauna after her swim.
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In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse or massage parlour.
- McPhail ran Maitland's brothels—knocking-shops in Maryhill, Riddrie, Dennistoun, and the more upscale saunas in the West End and city centre.
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informalA very hot place or room.
saunaverb/ˈsɔː.nə/
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To use a sauna.
- “I find it disgusting,” she said. “It would be a total no-no to go to a sauna in Austria with your bathing suit, and an insult to wear workout clothes.” She now saunas at home.
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。