核心畫面

You can think of a cable car as a car that never moves itself. Somewhere nearby, a long steel rope is turning all day in a loop, and the car simply joins it and is carried along. Hold on and you travel; let go and you stop. Hang the car under the rope and it sails over a valley. Lay the rope under a track and the car climbs a street. Both are the same idea, seen from above and from below.

可以想成 cable car 是「一台自己不會動的車」。附近有一條長長的鋼索,整天繞成一個圈在轉。車子只要接上它,就更多收起可以想成 cable car 是「一台自己不會動的車」。附近有一條長長的鋼索,整天繞成一個圈在轉。車子只要接上它,就被帶著走。抓住就前進,放開就停下。把車廂吊在鋼索底下,它就飄過整座山谷。把鋼索埋進軌道下面,它就沿著街道爬坡。兩種其實是同一件事,只是一個從上面吊著,一個從下面拉著。所以不管哪一種,真正在動的都不是車,是那條索。

Two branches

吊在鋼索下面

車廂掛在鋼索底下,離地面越來越遠,這是核心畫面往空中走的那一半。

noun · A2

A small vehicle that hangs from a moving steel rope high above the ground, used to carry people up and down mountains or across a valley.

纜車

抓住軌道下的鋼索

同一條一直在轉的鋼索改藏到地面軌道底下,車子從吊著變成抓著。

noun · B1

A vehicle like a small train, with no engine of its own, that moves by gripping a cable running under its track. Some run in city streets, as in San Francisco; others run on their own line up a steep slope.

纜索電車