核心畫面

You can think of abrasion as one surface taking a layer off another by rubbing. Something hard and rough drags across something softer, and a little of the softer thing goes each time. The word can name that rubbing-away itself, or the bare place it leaves behind.

abrasion 可以想成「一個表面把另一個表面磨掉一層」。粗硬的東西擦過比較軟的東西,每擦一次就帶走一點。這個字既更多收起abrasion 可以想成「一個表面把另一個表面磨掉一層」。粗硬的東西擦過比較軟的東西,每擦一次就帶走一點。這個字既可以指「磨掉」這個過程,也可以指磨完之後露出來的那一塊。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces it to Medieval Latin abrasio, a scraping, from Latin abradere, to scrape off — so the scraping action, not the mark, is what the word originally named.

來源資料把它追到中世紀拉丁文 abrasio(刮這件事),來自拉丁文 abrādō(刮掉)。也就是說,這個字最早指的是「刮」這個動作,而不是刮出來的痕跡。

Wiktionary (kaikki) entry for 'abrasion' supplied in the evidence packet: 'From French abrasion, from Medieval Latin abrasio (a scraping), from Latin abradō (scrape off).' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:13451841:32219)

Two branches

被磨掉一層

兩個意思共用同一個動作,差別只在說的是「磨」還是「磨出來的那塊」。

noun · C1

The wearing away of a surface when something rubs hard against it, so that the surface is damaged or slowly disappears.

磨損

磨出來的那一塊

同一個動作,這次看的是結果,而且發生在皮膚上。

noun · C1

A sore patch on the skin where the top layer has been rubbed off against something rough or hard.

擦傷