果子與果樹
核心畫面本身，以及把鏡頭拉遠一步之後看到的那棵樹。
noun · B1
A small round fruit with soft orange-yellow skin and flesh and one large hard seed in the middle. It is sweet with a little sourness, and it tastes something like a peach or a plum.
杏桃
核心畫面
Hold one small round fruit in your hand: soft skin with a light fuzz, warm orange-yellow all the way round, and one big flat seed hiding in the middle. Everything the word does comes out of that one object. Step back from the fruit and you get the tree it hung on. Look only at the colour of the skin and you get a name for that colour, ready to be used for walls, scarves and evening skies.
可以想成手裡握著一顆小小圓圓的果子：皮上有一層薄薄的絨毛，整顆是暖暖的橘黃色，中間藏著一顆又大又扁的籽。這個字的所有…更多收起
可以想成手裡握著一顆小小圓圓的果子：皮上有一層薄薄的絨毛，整顆是暖暖的橘黃色，中間藏著一顆又大又扁的籽。這個字的所有用法，都是從這一顆果子長出來的。把鏡頭往後拉，看到它掛著的那棵樹。只盯著皮的顏色看，那個顏色本身就被拿去當名字用，可以講牆、講圍巾、講傍晚的天空。From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary etymology traces the word from Late Latin praecocia, the peaches that ripen early, through Byzantine Greek and Arabic al-barquq into English, where it was once spelt abrecock and apricock.
來源記錄的路線很長：晚期拉丁文 praecocia（早熟的那種桃子）→ 拜占庭希臘文 → 阿拉伯文 al-barqūq → 加泰隆尼亞方言 → 英文，早期還寫成 abrecock、apricock。最前面那一段跟核心畫面扣得很緊：這顆果子當初被命名，看中的就是「比桃子早熟」這件事。
Wiktionary entry for apricot, supplied in this batch's evidence packet (etymology text truncated to 500 chars there).
Two branches
那個顏色
從果子身上只取一樣東西——皮的顏色——然後把它當成顏色的名字，離開水果去形容別的東西。
noun · B1
The soft pale orange-yellow colour of an apricot.
杏黃色