A tiny cluster of houses out in the countryside — just a handful of homes and maybe one shop, smaller than a town.
可以想成鄉下一小撮房子聚在一起：只有幾戶人家、也許一間小店，比鎮還小。這個「小小的鄉間聚落」就是核心畫面；至於這個字另一個用法——指住在裡面的「全村人」——其實只是把同一個地方換個角度看：先有那個小地方，再用它來代表住在那兒的一群人。
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
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。
villagenoun/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
- There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.
- […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]
- 2
A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
- I mean, think about it, Joyce. Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it's always the same thing: Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide, and murder. How could you possibly expect me to go and live in one of them?
- 3
A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
- 4
An exclusive gated community; a subdivision.
- There are six blocks in our village, each having ten lots.
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。