A spot is one small point marked off from everything around it — a dark point on skin, or a single place on a map. Put 'beauty' in front and the point is not just marked, it is : this is the bit worth looking at. Everything on this page is that same small point, on a face or on the land.
spot 可以想成「一個小點」:從周圍分出來、被特別標出來的一點。它可以是皮膚上的一個黑點,也可以是地圖上的一個地方。前面加上 beauty,這個點就不只是被標出來,而是被看重了——這裡是值得看的那一點。這一頁上的每個意思,都還在同一個畫面裡:一個小小的、被當成美的點。差別只在它長在臉上,還是落在地圖上。
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records the word as simply beauty (noun) + spot (noun), and notes that some uses of the older, wider sense ('a thing which is beautiful') are figurative uses of the face-patch sense.
Wiktionary 記的組成很直接:beauty(美)+ spot(點)。它同時提到,比較舊的那個廣義用法(「美的事物」),有些是從「臉上貼的妝點」那個意思比喻來的。所以這個字從一開始就在「點」這個畫面上。
Wiktionary, "beauty spot"
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