- 1n/ˈvætɪkən/the Pope's palace梵蒂岡（教宗的宮殿）
The large palace in Rome where the Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, lives and works.
the Vatican 指羅馬城裡那座大宮殿。教宗住在那裡，也在那裡辦公。教宗是天主教會的領袖。這個意思講的是一個地方，所以動詞跟一般建築物一樣。你可以說 visit the Vatican、go to the Vatican。這個用法前面幾乎一定要加 the。第一個字母也一定要大寫，因為它是專有名詞。這座宮殿也叫做 Apostolic Palace。要注意它和國名 Vatican City 不一樣，國名前面通常不加 the。
示範例句 · Example
We spent the whole morning at the Vatican, looking at the paintings.
中文翻譯我們在梵蒂岡待了整個早上，看那些畫。
Used this way, the Vatican is a place you can walk to, queue outside and go into, so it takes the same verbs as any other building: visit the Vatican, go to the Vatican, spend a morning at the Vatican. It almost always carries the, and the first letter is a capital because it is a name. Keep it apart from Vatican City, which is the small state around the palace and normally takes no the. The building is also called the Apostolic Palace.
常見搭配
visit the Vatican
參觀梵蒂岡
to go there as a visitor
If you visit the Vatican, go early in the day.
at the Vatican
在梵蒂岡（那個地方）
in or at that building
The meeting was held at the Vatican.
inside the Vatican
在梵蒂岡裡面
in the rooms of the palace
Photographs are not allowed inside the Vatican.
意思相近
Apostolic PalacePapal Palace
- 2n/ˈvætɪkən/the Pope's government教廷；梵蒂岡當局
The Pope and the officials who work with him, thought of together as the body that governs the Roman Catholic Church and speaks for it.
這是用地方來代表人的講法。英文也拿 the White House 代表美國政府。the Vatican 在新聞裡常指教宗和他的官員。他們一起代表教會表態、做決定。所以你會看到 the Vatican said、the Vatican announced。雖然講的是一群人，動詞還是用單數。中文多半翻成「教廷」或直接說「梵蒂岡」。這個用法是借代，也有 the papacy、the Holy See 兩個同樣指這個機構的名字。
This is a place name standing in for the people who work there, the same move English makes with the White House or Downing Street. In news writing the Vatican says, the Vatican announced and the Vatican has taken a firm line all mean the Pope and his officials, not the building. It stays singular, so the verb is singular even though a whole government is meant. This use is metonymic and also has the names the papacy and the Holy See for the same body.
常見搭配
the Vatican said/announced
教廷表示／宣布
an official statement came from the Pope's government
The Vatican announced the visit last week.
a Vatican spokesman
教廷發言人
an official who speaks publicly for the Pope's government
A Vatican spokesman answered questions for an hour.
Vatican officials
教廷官員
the people who work in the Pope's government
Vatican officials met the visiting ministers on Tuesday.
意思相近
the Holy Seethe papacythe Church
用法接近
the White HouseDowning Streetthe Kremlin