One way to hold this word: a door that does not open for you. A host who will not take you in, will not feed you, will not give you a chair — and a landscape that does exactly the same thing, with no shelter, no water and weather that pushes you back out. Both uses are the same refusal, once from a person and once from a place.
From the word’s history
From Middle French inhospitable, from Medieval Latin inhospitabilis; by surface analysis in- (not) + hospitable (able to receive guests). The negative of a host-word is why both a person and a place can wear it.
來自中古法文 inhospitable、中世紀拉丁文 inhospitābilis；拆開來看就是 in-（不）加 hospitable（能接待客人的）。既然字根講的是「待客」，那麼一個人不待客、一片土地不留人，就都能用這個字。
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登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。