喜樂美語

核心畫面

Two people stand with their shoulder blades touching. Neither can see the other, and there is nothing at all between them — no step back, no space, no gap. Hold on to the gap being gone, because that is what the word carries everywhere it goes. Two rows of houses can touch that way. So can two events, if the end of one is the start of the next.

可以想成兩個人背貼著背站著。誰也看不到誰，而且兩人中間什麼都沒有——不能退一步，沒有空間，沒有縫。請記住「縫不見了」…更多收起可以想成兩個人背貼著背站著。誰也看不到誰，而且兩人中間什麼都沒有——不能退一步，沒有空間，沒有縫。請記住「縫不見了」這件事，因為這個字走到哪裡都帶著它。兩排房子可以這樣貼著。兩件事也可以這樣貼著：前一件的結束，就是後一件的開始。

Three branches

人或東西背貼著背

這一支就是核心畫面本身，一個字面上的姿勢。

adjective · B1

With the back of one person or thing touching or facing the back of another, so the two of them face in opposite directions.

背對背的

時間上一件貼著一件

把「中間沒有縫」從空間搬到時間上：前一件的背，貼著後一件的背。這是幫助理解的連結，不是在說歷史來源。

adjective · B2

Happening one straight after another, with no gap in between — two meetings, two wins, two films in a row.

一個接一個的

兩排房子後牆貼後牆

同樣是「中間沒有縫」，只是這次貼在一起的是牆，而且這個用法已經固定成一個名詞。

noun · C1

A house in a row whose back wall is also the back wall of a house in the next row, so the two rows of houses touch with nothing between them.

背貼背的連棟住宅

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

back-to-backadj/ˌbæk.təˈbæk/

  • 1

    Sequential or consecutive.

    • Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
    • They sat through two back-to-back movies.
  • 2

    With one's back facing that of somebody else.

  • 3

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsEmerging in exactly opposite directions.

    • Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted.
    • This produces two back-to-back jets of hadrons that dominate the inclusive high energy cross-section.
  • 4

    Having a party wall at the rear.

    • We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.
  • 5

    slangcard-gamespokerSynonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).

back-to-backnoun/ˌbæk.təˈbæk/

  • 1

    A house with a party wall at the rear.

  • 2

    One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.

    • "He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。