英语学英语：用英语探讨一个问题：house还是home还是family，分不清？
home 和 family的区别？
《英语世界》杂志2017年翻译大赛汉译英中，有一句是说男女组成家庭的，参考译文说 a home is formed by two lives because of love
home是家，是住人的地方，两个人如何组成住人的地方呢？这是不对的。home是要花钱买的，老美不是常说buy a home, home builder or buyer吗?
而family是有小孩的家庭才能这么说，do you have a family?你有小孩吗？不是，你成家了吗
探讨如下：
1. Money can buy a house. Money can buy a home,too.,because a home is a house, but a house may not be a home.But you think money can buy a family?Without money, you can do nothing, but money is not everything.
2. A house is a building, a shelter. A home is a building a shelter, too. This is where they overlap,or cross into each other in meaning, but a home is where our loved ones live, our parents, our siblings, someone who has a relationship with us.A home is where we belong to. A hotel is a house,but it is not our home.Our loved ones dont live there.So a house is only a building, a house is a house.
3. Yes Americans say buy a home, not a house because it is a home for us, for our loved ones to live in. This is what they mean when they say they buy a home, not buy a house.But even for Americans, I mean an American investor or a speculator, they will choose to say they buy a HOUSE, not a home.
中国人也一样，说“买房子”，实际指“买住房，自用房”buy a home 这就是我们多听到美语buy a home的原因，而同样是中国炒房客说“买房”，实质是“买房子”的 buy a house，一个人，中国人美国人英国人是买不了那么多home的，一套足矣！这是听到说buy a home不说buy a house的原因。买房，买住房乎？买房子乎？英语亦然。
So we can buy a house for more houses or more money in the future, but we buy a home for our family, for our loved ones to live together.
3.A family is about people.It is about people with blood relations,or biological ties who live together in a home, not a house, i think, unless we live in a makeshift, or a refugee house in emergency like an earthquake ir in wartime.A family is about people.A family is not about bricks and motars and cold walls.怎么会“混搭”在一起？<br />
4. A home is formed by two lives because of love你确定你没“抄错”高手们写的“英语”？
Dont think a home IS FORMed.I repeat it.You can not FORM a home, but you can form,or rather make a family.A home is where loved ones LIVE.
5. A morale, a lesson 启示录：
用中文学英语，你最后得到的还是中文，披着英语字母外衣/马甲的中文。你以为披着英语字母马甲我就认不出你是中文了？？
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