核心畫面

Picture one day that moves a girl across a line. On one side of it she is a child in the eyes of her religious community; on the other side she is counted as an adult member of it, and the day this happens is her thirteenth year. Everything the words do can be read off that single day: they can name the day, they can name the girl standing in the middle of it, and they can be bent into a verb for the day being carried out for her.

可以想成一個把女孩送過一條線的日子。線的這一邊,她在宗教社群裡是小孩。線的另一邊,她被當成成年的一員,而發生這件事的更多收起可以想成一個把女孩送過一條線的日子。線的這一邊,她在宗教社群裡是小孩。線的另一邊,她被當成成年的一員,而發生這件事的時間是十三歲。這組字後來的用法,都能從這一天讀出來:它可以指那一天,可以指那天站在中間的女孩,也可以被拿來當動詞,講「有人為她辦了這一天」。

From the word’s history

Borrowed from Hebrew bat mitzvah, which the source glosses as someone who has come of age. English took the two words in as they were, kept them separate on the page, and kept something close to the original sound, which is why several spellings are in use.

借自希伯來文 בַּת מִצְוָה,來源資料把它解釋成「已經成年的人」。英文把這兩個字原樣借進來,在書寫上維持分開,發音也大致保留原樣,所以才會有 bat-mitzvah、bas mitzvah、bath mitzvah 幾種寫法並存。

Wiktionary entry for bat mitzvah, supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:2025118684)

One branch

那一天,和那天的人

這兩個意思共用同一天,差別只在指的是場合還是人。

noun · B2

A religious ceremony in Judaism, held when a Jewish girl reaches the age of thirteen, after which she is counted as an adult in her religion.

猶太成年禮(女孩)