Picture someone letting their whole body go loose — half sitting, half lying on a sofa, not going anywhere and not doing anything. That relaxed posture is where lounge starts. The rooms came later and took their name from the posture: a lounge is a place where people sit like that.

可以想成一個人整個身體鬆下來,半躺半坐地攤在沙發上,沒有要去哪裡,也沒有要做什麼。這個放鬆的姿勢就是 lounge 最早的樣子。那些房間是後來才有的,名字是跟姿勢借的——lounge 就是「可以這樣待著的地方」。

From the word’s history

The verb comes first: c. 1500 in Scottish English, 'to loll idly, act or rest lazily, move indolently if at all' (origin uncertain — possibly French s'allonger, or the obsolete noun lungis 'slow, lazy person'), with 'recline lazily' by about 1746. The noun is much later: 1806 'act of lounging', 1830 'couch on which one can lie at full length', 1881 'comfortable drawing room'. So the posture is nearly three centuries older than the room.

動詞比名詞早很多:lounge 約在 1500 年的蘇格蘭英語裡先有「懶懶地待著、動也不太想動」的意思(來源不確定,一說和法文 s'allonger 或舊字 lungis「慢吞吞的人」有關),1746 年前後有了「懶洋洋地半躺」。名詞晚得多——1806 年指「懶待這件事」,1830 年指「可以整個人躺平的長沙發」,到 1881 年才變成「舒服的起居室」。也就是說,先有那個姿勢,才有那些房間。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'lounge'

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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。

loungeverb/ˈlaʊ̯nd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

    • We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas.
    • We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.
  • 2

    To walk or go in a leisurely manner.

    • When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.
    • As she lounged past Leila's car she cast an insolent glance at the Irish girl.

loungenoun/ˈlaʊ̯nd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    archaicA place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.

    • He […] prevailed on Captain Musgrave to introduce him to a family, where he supposed he might find a monstrous good lounge for the rest of the time he was to be quartered in the neighbourhood.
    • Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies.
  • 2

    archaicA place where one can lounge; an area, establishment, house etc. where loungers gather and where one can relax and be at ease.

  • 3

    The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.

    • That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.
  • 4

    A room of a house for casual relaxing and entertaining.

    • Near-synonyms: den, living room, sitting room, parlour, parlor, rec room
    • Let's go hang out in the lounge.
  • 5

    A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.

  • 6

    A waiting room in an office, airport etc.

  • 7

    An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.

    • Near-synonyms: bar, pub, divan; see also Thesaurus:pub

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