房子不是家

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10. 房子不是家
A House Is not a Home
房子不是家,它仅仅提供一个遮风挡雨避寒的地方。

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⏹A house is not a home. It simply provides a place to shelter from cold, heat, and
rain/it simply gives shelter from...
家能带给住在里面的人荣誉感和拥有感。

⏹两个“感”字英文只需一个a sense of
⏹A home gives one who dwells within it a sense of pride and ownership.
在家里人们觉得受庇护,将世界阻隔于外。

⏹±Ó»¤:protect; shelter
⏹阻隔:separate; cut off; isolate。

此处可以使用一个介词from来表达这个动词含义。

⏹Inside the home people feel sheltered from the world.
一个人可以一间房子都没有,但仍然拥有家;相对的,有人纵使拥有百栋房子,却仍少个家。

⏹A person could be without a house and still possess a home. On the other hand /
on the contrary, one could have a hundred houses and still lack a home.
有句家喻户晓的谚语说:“心在哪里,家就在哪里。

”所以,家可以在你选择的任何地方。

⏹家喻户晓:widely known
⏹哪里…哪里…:
⏹(1)Where…, there is…
⏹(2) 名词is where…
⏹As a well-known proverb goes: “Home is where the heart is.” Therefore, a home
could be anywhere one chooses.
房子只是个建筑,觉得“像回到家一样”和房子没有多少关系,而是和人际关系或那个地方的放松气氛有关。

⏹建筑:architecture总称,抽象概念。

具体事物即建筑物:building ; structure; edifice(大)⏹…而是:此处是对比关系,less…and/but more…
⏹A house is just a structure. Feeling “at home”has less to do with a building but
more to do with human relations or a sense of ease /an easy atmosphere felt in that place.
如果你总是感觉安全、放松和受到欢迎,整条街坊都可以像家一般。

⏹A whole street / block/neighborhood could feel like home, if one always feels safe,
relaxed and welcome there.。