Airbnb

释义 Definition

Airbnb：爱彼迎（共享住宿平台/品牌名）。指一个让个人把房间或整套房源短期出租给旅行者的线上平台；也可泛指通过该平台预订的“民宿/短租房”。（也常被当作动词用：to Airbnb a room 把房间放到爱彼迎上出租。）

发音 Pronunciation (IPA)

/ˈɛər.biˌɛn.biː/

例句 Examples

I booked an Airbnb near the station.
我在车站附近订了一间爱彼迎的房源。

During the festival, hotels were full, so we stayed in an Airbnb hosted by a local family and cooked dinner together.
节日期间酒店都满了，所以我们住在当地一家人做房东的爱彼迎民宿里，还一起做了晚饭。

词源 Etymology

Airbnb 原名来自 “Air Bed and Breakfast”（充气床 + 含早餐的住宿），最早指给住客提供临时床位与简单早餐的家庭住宿；后来发展为全球性的短期租住平台，名称缩写为 Airbnb。

相关词 Related Words

• Booking
• Guest
• Host
• Homestay
• Lodging
• Rental
• Reservation
• Short-Term
• Sublet
• Vacation

文学与作品 Literary Works

• The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions… and Created Plenty of Controversy（Leigh Gallagher）
• The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism（Arun Sundararajan）
• Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—and How to Make Them Work for You（Geoffrey G. Parker 等）