village

Compared meaning: a small settlement of houses (noun).

比较义项：村庄、小村庄（名词）。

• village 本词

  The everyday, general word for a small settlement of houses; villages vary in size and often have their own shops, school or church, making the word neutral and widely applicable.

  泛指小型聚居地的常用词；village大小不一，通常有自己的商店、学校或教堂，语气中性，适用范围广。

  My grandparents live in a quiet little village with its own church and shop.

  我祖父母住在一个安静的小village里，那里有自己的教堂和商店。

• hamlet

  A very small, often quaint or remote village, usually without its own church, school or shops; used to stress how tiny and simple a place is, often in literary or descriptive writing.

  一个非常小、常显古朴或偏僻的聚居地（比village更小）；通常没有自己的教堂、学校或商店，用于强调地方之小之简朴，常见于文学性或描述性文字中。

  The small hamlet had only a dozen houses and one shop.

  这个小hamlet只有十几栋房子和一家商店。

Village and hamlet both mean a small place where people live. Village is the everyday word; villages can have shops, a school, or a church. Hamlet is a smaller, often quaint or remote village, usually without its own church or school, and sounds more literary.

这两个词都指规模很小的聚居地，在这个意义上很接近，容易混淆；hamlet比village更小、更简朴，语气也更偏书面或文学化。