核心畫面

Start with dipper: a long-handled spoon for scooping water. Seven bright stars in the northern sky fall into exactly that shape, four for the bowl and three for the handle, and English calls them the Big Dipper. The word takes the other half of the family: not the spoon shape, but the dip - a car climbing to the top and then dropping away. Same two words, one for the sky and one for the seaside, and the capital letters are what tell them apart.

先看 dipper:一支舀水用的長柄勺。北方夜空那七顆亮星連起來剛好是這個形狀,四顆勺身、三顆勺柄,英文就叫它 th更多收起先看 dipper:一支舀水用的長柄勺。北方夜空那七顆亮星連起來剛好是這個形狀,四顆勺身、三顆勺柄,英文就叫它 the Big Dipper,也就是北斗七星。遊樂場那個意思走的是另一半:重點不在勺子的形狀,而在 dip——車子爬到最高點,然後整台往下衝。同樣兩個字,一個抬頭看天,一個在海邊的遊樂場,靠大小寫分辨。

From the picture

遊樂場的那一路俯衝

跟星星那一支共用 dipper 這個字,但取的東西不同:星星取的是勺子的形狀,遊樂設施取的是往下沉的那個動作。

noun · B2

An older British name for a roller coaster: a small railway at a fair, with steep slopes and sharp bends, built to give people an exciting ride.

雲霄飛車(舊式英式說法)

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noun · B2

A group of seven bright stars in the northern sky that together make the shape of a large spoon with a long handle. It is part of the star pattern called Ursa Major, and it can be seen only from northern parts of the world.

北斗七星