核心畫面

Picture a key ring with two keys on it. One opens the door you come back to every night. The other opens a door somewhere else: a house by the sea, a room in another city, a friend's kitchen. A second home is whatever that second key opens, a place your life is not based in, but which you can still walk into and feel at home.

可以想成鑰匙圈上有兩把鑰匙。一把開的是你每天晚上回去的那道門。另一把開的是別的地方的門——海邊的房子、另一個城市的房更多收起可以想成鑰匙圈上有兩把鑰匙。一把開的是你每天晚上回去的那道門。另一把開的是別的地方的門——海邊的房子、另一個城市的房間,或是朋友家的廚房。second home 可以想成第二把鑰匙開的那個地方:生活重心不在那裡,但走進去就是自在的。

Two branches

真的有第二棟房子

這一支把第二把鑰匙照字面看:那道門真的屬於你,房子登記在你名下,只是你不天天睡在那裡。

noun · B1

A house or apartment that you own as well as the home you live in most of the time. People often keep one for holidays, weekends or summers.

第二棟房子

像家一樣的地方

這一支把房子那一層放掉,只留下「走進去就自在」的感覺。門不必是你的,只要你常去、待得夠久。這是一個意思上的延伸,不是在說歷史上誰先誰後。

noun · B2

A place that is not where you live, but where you spend so much time, and feel so comfortable, that it feels almost like your own home.

第二個家