喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈhaʊsˌkiːpər/ · /ˈhaʊsˌkiːpə/管家

    someone whose job is to manage the cleaning, cooking, and daily care of a house or hotel.

    示範例句 · Example

    The family hired a housekeeper to help with cleaning and cooking.

    逐字這個家庭雇了一位管家來幫忙打掃和煮飯。

    「housekeeper」是「受雇打理房子或旅館家務的人」，中文最自然常說管家。工作內容常包括打掃、煮飯、安排日常家務；也可以用在旅館（hotel housekeeper）。核心畫面可以想成「把房子照顧得好好的人」。a good housekeeper 還可以說「很會打理家務的人」（有時指自己的家），跟 maid（偏清潔／服侍）接近但 housekeeper 更常帶「負責管理家務」的感覺。

    常見搭配

    • hire / employ a housekeeper

      雇一位管家

      pay someone to manage cleaning and daily care of a home

      They hired a housekeeper two mornings a week.

    • good housekeeper

      很會打理家務的人

      someone who keeps a home tidy and well run

      "You're a good housekeeper," Leo told Mum after she sorted the shelves.

    • live-in housekeeper

      住家管家

      a housekeeper who lives in the employer's home

      The live-in housekeeper had a small room near the kitchen.

    • hotel housekeeper

      旅館管家；客房清潔人員

      someone who cleans and prepares hotel rooms

      The hotel housekeeper left fresh towels on every bed.

    • meticulous housekeeper

      一絲不苟的管家

      a housekeeper who is very careful and exact about cleaning

      She was a meticulous housekeeper who lined up every book.

core核心畫面

The word is house + keeper: the person who keeps a house running. Picture someone who knows where everything is, what needs washing, what needs buying, and when dinner has to be ready — not a guest, not the owner, but the one holding the daily running of the place together.

這個字就是 house（房子）＋ keeper（管理、照看的人）：讓一個家運轉起來的那個人。可以想成一個人知道東西放在哪、什麼該洗、什麼該買、晚餐幾點要好——他不是客人，也不是屋主，而是把這個地方的日常撐住的那個角色。範圍不只是打掃，還包括整體的張羅。

複數 housekeepers

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

housekeepernoun/ˈhaʊskipɚ/

  • 1

    Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc.

    • She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up.
    • The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.
  • 2

    Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.

  • 3

    archaicSomeone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.

    • I do assure you he is no house-keeper. I have seen him in desperate conflict with savage men, and even with His Majesty's redcoats.
  • 4

    archaicSomeone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.

    • He was often heard to express his fears of coming upon the parish; and to bless God, that, on account of his having been so long a housekeeper, he was intitled to that provision.

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