核心畫面

A tiny cluster of houses out in the countryside — just a handful of homes and maybe one shop, smaller than a town.

可以想成鄉下一小撮房子聚在一起:只有幾戶人家、也許一間小店,比鎮還小。這個「小小的鄉間聚落」就是核心畫面;至於這個字更多收起可以想成鄉下一小撮房子聚在一起:只有幾戶人家、也許一間小店,比鎮還小。這個「小小的鄉間聚落」就是核心畫面;至於這個字另一個用法——指住在裡面的「全村人」——其實只是把同一個地方換個角度看:先有那個小地方,再用它來代表住在那兒的一群人。

From the picture

全村的人

從「那個小地方」很自然地滑到「住在那裡的人」:地方和人連在一起,講久了一個字就能同時代表兩者。

villagers as a group · noun · A1

All the people who live in a village, thought of as one group.

全村村民

Also in this word

village (small town) · noun · A1

A very small town in the countryside, with only a few houses and shops.

村莊

原始詞典資料4 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。

villagenoun/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

    • There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.
    • […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]
  • 2

    A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.

    • I mean, think about it, Joyce. Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it's always the same thing: Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide, and murder. How could you possibly expect me to go and live in one of them?
  • 3

    A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.

  • 4

    An exclusive gated community; a subdivision.

    • There are six blocks in our village, each having ten lots.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。