有地環繞的鄉間大宅
這一組緊貼核心：一棟大房子加上四周屬於它的土地，從古羅馬的莊園到今天的度假別墅，都是同一個畫面的變體。
ancient Roman estate · noun · B2
A large country house or farm from ancient Roman times, with land all around it.
羅馬莊園
核心畫面
You can picture a villa as a large, comfortable house standing on its own with land around it — a garden, grounds, maybe fields — set apart from the crowded town. , private, and green around the edges.
可以想成：一棟寬敞舒適、自成一格的大房子，四周還圍著自己的地——花園、庭院，甚至田地——和擁擠的城區保持著距離。核心…更多收起
可以想成：一棟寬敞舒適、自成一格的大房子，四周還圍著自己的地——花園、庭院，甚至田地——和擁擠的城區保持著距離。核心畫面比較像「有地環繞的大宅」：房子大、地也大、四周是綠的。From the word’s history
Villa comes straight from Latin villa 'country house, farm'. A Roman villa was a self-sufficient country estate — a fine house together with its surrounding farmland. That original 'grand house plus its land' is exactly the picture the modern senses still carry.
villa 直接來自拉丁文 villa，意思是「鄉間宅邸、農莊」。古羅馬的 villa 是一整片能自給自足的莊園——一棟講究的大宅連著周圍的農地。這個「大宅＋周圍土地」的原始畫面，正是現代各個意思都還保留著的核心。
etymonline.com/word/villa (Latin villa 'country house, farm', related to vicus)
Two branches
搬進城裡的洋房
同一個字進了城：十九世紀城鎮裡成排或成對蓋的大宅，借用 villa 這個名字來標榜氣派，雖然四周的田地已經沒了。
row-house mansion · noun · B2
A large old house in a town or city, especially one built in the 1800s in a row or pair.
洋房
原始詞典資料6 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。
Villaname
- 1
A surname from Spanish.
- 2
ball-gamesgameshobbiesAston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham
- Olsson and Herd tussled off the ball at a free-kick before Olsson fell to the ground. Assistant referee Darren Cann signalled for a penalty and Dowd sent Herd off to the amazement of the Villa faithful.
villanoun詞源 1/ˈvɪlə/
- 1
A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
- What I commissioned you to get for me, and anything you see suitable to my Tusculan villa, I should be glad if you will, as you say in your letter, procure for me, only don't put yourself to any inconvenience. The truth is, there is no other place that gives me complete rest after all my worries and hard work.
- This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.
- 2
A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
- They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.
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slangOne’s village or ancestral homeland.
villanoun詞源 2/ˈvɪlə/
- 1
A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
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。