it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

短语

别名

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

释义与例句

prov.
  1. 1.

    A house is simply a physical structure and does not count as a home until significant events in the inhabitants' lives have occurred there over a substantial period of time, and they have developed an emotional bond to the house and its immediate environs.

    美国

    We often hear the famous lines quoted that it takes a heap of living to make a house a home, but we have to recognize that the family cannot do it without a house in which to start.

词源

From the poem A Heap o' Livin' (1916) by Edgar A. Guest.

来源：wiktionary