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home HOUSE/APARTMENTHhEJm, $hoJmna building or structure in which a person lives, esp. a house or apartment家，住宅The family has three homes--an apartment in New York, a country house in Pine Plains and a beach house in the Hamptons. [C]这家人有3处住所----1套纽约公寓、1座松树平原的乡间别墅和1幢汉普顿斯的海滩别墅。Our new house doesn't feel like a home yet. [C]我们的新家感觉还不像家。He was living on the streets for three months, and his home was a cardboard box. [C]他住在街头已有3个月了，他的家是一个纸板箱。Phone me at home after four o'clock. [U]在4点以后打我家的电话。He left the letters at home. [U]他把信忘在家里了。She was elderly and needed help in the home (=in her house). [U]她上了年纪，在家需要帮助。He decided to leave home (=stop living with his parents) when he was 23. [U]他在23岁时决定离开家，靠自己生活。More and more couples are setting up home together without getting married. [U]越来越多的一对对不结婚就组成家庭。They wanted to give the child a home (=wanted the child to live with them). [U]他们想给这个孩子一个家。If you are/feel at home you feel comfortable and relaxed.感觉轻松舒适By the end of the week she was beginning to feel at home in her new job.到一周结束时她开始对新工作熟悉起来。To make yourself at home you behave informally and in a relaxed way as if in your own house.像在家里一样随便She was shocked to find he had made himself at home in the lounge and showed no signs of leaving.她吃惊地发现他自由自在待在起居室，丝毫没有离去之意。Home is used to mean done or made at home.家里制作的，自制的home-made cakes/wine自制蛋糕/葡萄酒home-grown vegetables自家种的蔬菜home baking家里烘制(的糕点)home-brewed beer家酿啤酒As home suggests pleasant things like comfort and safety, people selling new houses or apartments often call them homes.出售的新房、新公寓常称为“家”luxury/starter homes [C]豪华/初始的家Home can mean the type of family you come from.出生的家庭We had a happy home. [C]我们曾经有一个快乐的家庭。The children were from a broken home (=the parents had separated). [C]这些孩子来自于一个破裂的家庭。A home is also a place where a group of people or animals live and are cared for by people who are not their relatives or owners.疗养院，收容所a children's home/an old people's home/a dogs'home [C]儿童养育院/养老院/犬类收容所He spent his early years in a home. [C]他的少年时代是在收容所里度过的。Your home address and home (phone) number are the address and telephone number of the house or apartment you live in.家庭地址，宅电(家庭电话)A home buyer is a person who is buying a house or an apartment.买房者Home economics is the study of all matters relating to the management of a home.家政学The home front means the people at home, esp. those staying behind during war.(战争时)后方(humorous) How are things on the home front (=How is your family)?你家里怎么样?A (Br) home from home/(Am and Aus usually) home away from home is a place where you feel as comfortable as you are in your own house.宾至如归的地方The hotel was a real home from home.这个宾馆真像家里一样舒适。(Br) A home help is someone who is paid to help someone else with the cleaning of their home.(花钱雇用的)帮做家务的人A home loan is money borrowed from a bank or similar organization in order to buy a house or apartment.买房贷款A home movie is a film made for personal enjoyment, esp. one of family or holiday activities.记录家庭生活的影片'House' is the more usual word for describing a building that one family lives in. The word 'home' also refers to the life that goes on in that building. House更多用来描述所住的房子，home又指家庭生活。 Shopping goods
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