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释义 | Contents overview homehouse and homehouse and home and home 489.210811489 home1articles and prepositionsNo article is used in the expression at home (meaning 'in one's own place').Is anybody at home? (not … at the home?)At is often dropped, especially in American English.Is anybody home?Home (without to) can be used as an adverb referring to direction.I think I'll go home. (not … to home.)There is no special preposition in English to express the idea of being at somebody's home (like French chez, German bei, Danish/Swedish/Norwegian hos, etc). One way of saying this is to use at with a possessive.We had a great evening at Philip's.Ring up and see if Jacqueline is at the Smiths', could you?2house and homeHouse is an emotionally neutral word: it just refers to a particular type of building. Home is used more personally: it is the place that somebody lives in, and can express the idea of emotional attachment to a place. Compare:There are some horrible new houses in our village.I lived there for six years, but I never really felt it was my home.Previous Next |
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