飛機上的那台機器
這是畫面的原始版本：真的有一台機器在替人飛。
noun · B2
A machine on a plane that keeps it flying in the right direction on its own, so the pilot does not have to hold the controls the whole time.
自動駕駛裝置
核心畫面
Picture a pilot letting go of the controls in mid-air. Nobody is steering, and yet the plane keeps its height and keeps heading the right way. That single picture — something carrying on correctly while no one is paying attention to it — runs through both uses of the word. Bolted into a plane it is a machine; borrowed for a person it is the state of hands that keep working after the mind has wandered off.
可以想成這樣一張圖：駕駛員在半空中把手從操縱桿上放開。沒有人在控制，飛機卻還是穩穩地保持高度、朝著對的方向走。這個「…更多收起
可以想成這樣一張圖：駕駛員在半空中把手從操縱桿上放開。沒有人在控制，飛機卻還是穩穩地保持高度、朝著對的方向走。這個「有人放手、事情照樣自己進行」的畫面，兩個用法都用得上。裝在飛機上，它是一台實際的機器；搬到人身上，它變成一種狀態——手還在動，心思已經跑掉了。Two branches
人做事像開了自動駕駛
把同一張圖搬到人身上：放開的不是操縱桿，是注意力。
noun · B2
If you do something on automatic pilot, you do it without thinking about it, usually because you have done the same thing so many times that your body just carries on by itself.
（做事）沒在動腦