核心畫面
Picture warm mineral water and people coming to sit in it because they believe it will do them good. That is the oldest picture in the word: a place you travel to for the water. As the water stayed but the reason — health, beauty, relaxing — the word followed, and in American English it shrank all the way down to the hot tub in someone's back garden.
可以想成：一池溫熱的礦泉水，人們特地過來泡，相信對身體有好處。這是這個字裡最老的畫面：為了水而去的一個地方。後來水還…更多收起
可以想成：一池溫熱的礦泉水，人們特地過來泡，相信對身體有好處。這是這個字裡最老的畫面：為了水而去的一個地方。後來水還在，去的理由變寬了——保健、美容、放鬆——這個字也跟著走；到了美式英文，它甚至縮小成後院裡那個冒著熱水的浴缸。原始詞典資料15 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。
Spaname
- 1
A city in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.
spanoun詞源 1/ˈspɑː/
- 1
A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.
- 2
A trendy or fashionable resort.
- 3
A health club.
- They went to a spa for a massage.
- 4
A hot tub.
- Their bath is fitted with a spa.
- 5
A convenience store.
spanoun詞源 2/spɑː/
- 1
slangAn idiot; a gobshite
- What the fuck was she talking about, he must think she's such a spa.
- ['...] We'll say it was just the two of us sitting in the shed having a chat.' 'Don't be such a spa. Nobody will believe we were sitting in the shed having a chat.[...']
- 2
slangA clumsy person (see spastic)
- — Hit it. He missed. — You're a big spa, I told him.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。