綁成一束的實體堆
這一族最貼近原始畫面：看得見、抱得動的那一捆東西。
group of tied things · noun · C2
A group of things such as papers, clothes, or sticks that are tied or held together, often in a loose or messy pile.
一捆／一包
核心畫面
You can picture a bundle as a pile of loose things — sticks, clothes, papers — pulled in and tied with a band so the whole lot moves as one lump. Nothing inside is arranged; the band is what makes it a single thing.
一堆鬆散的東西——樹枝、衣服、報紙——被人攏在一起，外面用一條帶子紮起來，於是整堆可以一把抱走。裡面其實一點都不整齊…更多收起
一堆鬆散的東西——樹枝、衣服、報紙——被人攏在一起，外面用一條帶子紮起來，於是整堆可以一把抱走。裡面其實一點都不整齊，是「綁」這個動作讓它變成一個單位。這個畫面裡有兩件事之後會一直出現：一是「多樣東西被當成一件」，二是「用力塞、用力攏」的那股急促勁道。From the word’s history
The Middle English bundel goes back to a Germanic root meaning "a binding, a tying with bands" — the same family as bind. So the word never named the contents; it named the act of tying them together, which is exactly what still holds every modern sense in place.
bundle 來自中古英語 bundel，源頭是日耳曼語根「綁、用帶子繫」的意思，跟 bind（綁）同一家族。也就是說，這個字從來不是在講「裡面裝什麼」，而是在講「把東西繫成一束」這個動作——這正是今天各種用法都還踩著的那條線。
Wiktionary, "bundle" (etymology: Middle English bundel < Middle Dutch bondel / Old English byndele, from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą; related to bind)
Four branches
抽象的一組東西
看不見的帶子：東西沒有真的被繩子綁住，但你在處理上把它們當成一件事。
group treated as one · noun · C2
A number of things that belong together or that you deal with as one group, not as separate pieces.
一批／一組
「一大束」＝數量很多
一捆本來就意味著「不只一個」，所以英語很自然地讓 bundle 去表示「一大堆」；這一族還留著核心的份量感，但不再強調綁的動作。
a lot of money · noun · C2
A lot of money. Something costs a bundle when it is very expensive, and a person or company makes a bundle when they earn a lot.
一大筆錢
急急把人或物塞成一團
名詞是「被攏成一束的東西」，動詞就是「做出攏成一束那個動作」；急促和不客氣的手感是從紮捆的用力裡帶過來的。
push in quickly · verb · C2
To push a person or thing into a place fast, because you have little time or because you want to keep them out of sight.
塞進／塞入
原始詞典資料20 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。
bundlenoun/ˈbʌn.dl̩/
- 1
A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- a bundle of straw or of paper
- a bundle of noodles
- 2
A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- 3
A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- This software bundle includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and two games.
- 4
informalA large amount, especially of money.
- The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.
- I mean it's nothing for him to go to the races, do a bundle, and come home laughing and joking like nothing's happened.
- 5
biologynatural-sciencesA cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- 6
educationhuman-scienceslinguisticsA sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
- 7
computingengineeringmathematicsA directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
- 8
A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
另外 2 個記錄的用法
- 9
lawA court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- 10
mathematicssciencesTopological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
bundleverb/ˈbʌn.dl̩/
- 1
To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
- 2
To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
- 3
To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
- 4
To dress someone warmly.
- 5
To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
- 6
computingengineeringmathematicsTo sell hardware and software as a single product.
- 7
To hurry.
- 8
slangSynonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
- 9
To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
- At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.
- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
- 10
datedTo sleep on the same bed without undressing.
- Van Corlear […][stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
- They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.
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。