0 a house, usually in the countryside or near the sea, especially in southern Europe, and often one that people can rent for a holiday -- 别墅；花园住宅
They have a villa in Spain. 他们在西班牙有一栋别墅。
This is difficult to explain unless a villa elite were directly involved in the towns.
The role of the villa might remain the space that enables contemplation to become an ethos, and for action to become reconciled with poetry.
Unlike many other areas classical villas are noticeable by their virtual absence.
The paper is at its best when searching for a definition of the villa as a type, and placing it within a historical context.
However, the change of villas is likely to have already happened in the late 1920s.
Staying in the house for a long weekend you tend to drift into the rhythm of the day that a villa reveals to us all.
These areas were the site of larger villa residences before the coming of the railway and long the preserve of professional and business people.
However, when answering the question as to what constitutes a villa, we are perhaps being misled by our preference for morphological criteria.
