Picture a small wooden room with a stove of hot stones in one corner. The air is so hot and dry that your skin starts to sweat within a minute. People sit on the low benches, say little, and come out feeling loose and clean. The word points first at that room — and then, because the point of the room is the time you spend inside it, at the sitting itself.
原始詞典資料5 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。
saunanoun/ˈsɔː.nə/
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A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
- The hotel has a sauna in the basement.
- Of course, it will never get -100 here like it does in Antarctica, but a 300-degree swing was still theoretically possible on a record-cold Minnesota morning–if we got the sauna hot enough.
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The act of using a sauna.
- John had a sauna after his swim.
- Joanne went for a sauna after her swim.
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In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse or massage parlour.
- McPhail ran Maitland's brothels—knocking-shops in Maryhill, Riddrie, Dennistoun, and the more upscale saunas in the West End and city centre.
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informalA very hot place or room.
saunaverb/ˈsɔː.nə/
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To use a sauna.
- “I find it disgusting,” she said. “It would be a total no-no to go to a sauna in Austria with your bathing suit, and an insult to wear workout clothes.” She now saunas at home.
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