One way to hold this word: property you cannot pick up and walk away with. A phone, a bike, a box of books can all leave with you; a field, a shop, an apartment building stay exactly where they are, and owning them means owning a fixed piece of the world. Because the piece is fixed, its position is everything — the same building is worth more beside a station than at the end of a quiet lane.

可以想成一種你搬不走的財產。手機、腳踏車、一箱書都能跟著你走;一塊地、一間店面、一棟公寓就釘在原地。擁有它們,等於擁有世界上固定的一小塊。也因為釘在原地,位置就是一切——同樣一棟樓,蓋在車站旁邊和蓋在小巷底,價錢差很多。整個字的重量,都壓在這個「不能動」上面。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary notes that real here is the legal sense, relating to immovable tangible property, a use it traces back to Latin reālis. So real estate is estate (property) of the kind that cannot be moved — exactly the image above.

Wiktionary 記載:這裡的 real 是法律上「與不能移動的有形財產有關」的那個意思,可以一路追到拉丁文的 reālis。所以 real estate 就是「不能移動的那種 estate(財產)」,跟上面的畫面正好對得起來;real 在這裡跟「真的假的」沒有關係。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:330830564:31622), etymology note for 'real estate'

One branch

搬不走的財產,和靠它吃飯的行業

登入就可以看這一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

land and buildings · noun · B2

Land and the buildings standing on it, thought of as property that someone owns and can buy, sell, or rent out. It is an uncountable noun.

不動產/房地產

原始詞典資料2 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。

real estatenoun/ˈɹiːl əˌsteɪt/

  • 1

    Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground on which they are built.

    • They failed to find any investors for the construction of new real estate on the north side.
    • The "Golden Horseshoe", the commercial and industrial end of Lake Ontario, is the most crowded real estate in Canada.
  • 2

    informalSpace used for a particular purpose.

    • Virtual desktops allow you to stretch your screen real estate well beyond its normal size.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。