"He lives in the country"不是“他住在這個國家”

除了有“國家”的意思之外，

還有“鄉下，農村”的意思

那么，

?問題就來了，

我們怎么知道country到底是哪個意思?

“He lives in the country.”這句話不可以翻譯為“他住在這個國家”，如果要表達此意，應為：He lives in this country.

" The country" meaning "the countryside " is an uncountable noun."Country " as "nation" is a countable noun.

the country意為鄉村，country是一個不可數名詞。而Country作為nation是可數名詞。

the country=countryside

例：

He has gone to the country to recruit.

他到鄉間休養去了。

He is fresh from the country.

他剛從鄉下回來。

別人問你“Which country do you come from?”究竟是在問什么?

The country, when it is used to mean any sparsely populated rural area far outside the bounds of a city, cannot be used with "which", because the countryside does not consist of discrete bounded areas but is rather a continuous swath of green.

country，當它用來指遠離城市邊界的任何人口稀少的農村地區時，不能用which來提問，因為鄉村不是一個一個離散的有邊界的地區組成的，而是一片連續的綠色地帶。

There may be small villages dotting the countryside, but the country and the countryside refer to an anonymous stretch of rurality.

鄉村countryside中也許散布著小村莊villages，但country和countryside其實指的是一種不知名的田園風光，并不是具體的地方。

So, if the question contains the word "which", it is almost a certainty that the question is asking about nationality.

所以，如果問題中包含了which這個詞，那么幾乎可以肯定的是，問題是關于國籍的。

例：

Which country do you come from?

你來自哪個國家?

China.

中國。

What area of Massachusetts do you come from?

你來自馬薩諸塞州的哪個地區

I'm from the western part of the state, out in the country.

我來自西部，在鄉下。

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