villages
villages — 名詞
- villagessingular
- villagesesplural
1. a rural settlement of homes, a shop, and often a school or place of worship, wit
村莊；村落
鄉下的小型聚落
a rural settlement of homes, a shop, and often a school or place of worship, with far fewer residents and buildings than a town
Marco grew up in a small fishing village on the coast of Portugal.
Marco 在葡萄牙海岸的一個小漁村長大。
village + location phrase (on the coast)
The village shop sells fresh bread every morning.
村子裡的商店每天早上都賣新鮮的麵包。
noun modifier: village shop
Shirin walked through three villages before she reached the main road.
Shirin 走過三個村莊才到達主要道路上。
Electricity only reached the village five years ago.
五年前才剛有電送到這個村子裡。
- hamlet
even smaller than a village, often with no shop or school
- settlement
a more general term for any place where people live, can be smaller or larger
文法句型
a/the village
in a/the village
village + noun (village shop, village school)
用法筆記
Village can be used before another noun to describe things that belong to or are typical of a village, e.g. village life, village hall, village festival.
常見錯誤
2. every person living in a village, thought of as one body or community
村民
住在村子裡的所有居民
every person living in a village, thought of as one body or community
The whole village came out to celebrate the harvest festival.
全村的人都出來慶祝豐收節。
collective: the whole village
When the bridge was washed away, the village worked together to build a new one.
橋被沖走時，村民們合力蓋了一座新橋。
News of the birth spread quickly through the village.
嬰兒出生的消息很快就傳遍了全村。
The village decided to raise money for a new playground.
村民決定募款蓋一座新的遊樂場。
文法句型
the whole village
the entire village
用法筆記
In this sense, village is treated as a singular collective noun and can be the subject of verbs like decide, agree, help. Use the whole village or the entire village to emphasise that everyone participated.