核心畫面

You can think of an admirer as someone standing a little way back, looking at another person and thinking, that is good. The has not walked up and has not spoken; the warm feeling stays on their side of the room. Which way that feeling grows is what splits the word in two: grow it towards what the person does, and you get respect; grow it towards the person themselves, and you get romance.

admirer 的畫面可以想成一個人站在稍微遠一點的地方,抬頭看著另一個人,心裡覺得「真好」。看的人沒有走上前,也沒更多收起admirer 的畫面可以想成一個人站在稍微遠一點的地方,抬頭看著另一個人,心裡覺得「真好」。看的人沒有走上前,也沒有出聲,那份好感留在自己這一邊。這份好感往哪個方向長,就決定了兩種意思:往「他做的事」長,就是敬佩;往「他這個人」長,就是心動。

From the word’s history

Admirer is admire plus -er, the one who is doing the admiring, so the word has always been about the person looking rather than the person looked at.

admirer 由 admire(欣賞、佩服)加上 -er(做這個動作的人)構成,所以這個字講的一直是「在看的那一位」,不是被看的人。

Wiktionary entry 'admirer' (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:436510266): 'From admire + -er.'

One branch

站在遠處看著、覺得他很好

兩個意思都是同一種注視,差別只在那份好感指向作品,還是指向人本身。

noun · B2

Someone who respects a person and thinks highly of them, especially because they like the work that person does or has made.

仰慕者