水流進同一處的那片地
核心畫面的原樣：這裡的「接」是真的在接雨水。
noun · B2
All the land whose rain and streams drain into one river, lake or reservoir. Whatever water falls on that land ends up in the same place.
集水區
核心畫面
Picture a wide bowl of tilted land. Rain falls anywhere inside it, runs downhill, gathers into little streams, and all of those streams end in the same river or the same lake. The land is doing the catching, and the edge of the bowl is simply where the ground starts tipping the other way. Once you can see that bowl, you can see the word's other use too: swap the rain for people, and the river for a school, and the same shape is still there.
可以想成一個很大的、傾斜的盆地。雨落在裡面任何一個角落，都會往下流、匯成小溪，最後全進到同一條河或同一座湖。真正在「…更多收起
可以想成一個很大的、傾斜的盆地。雨落在裡面任何一個角落，都會往下流、匯成小溪，最後全進到同一條河或同一座湖。真正在「接」的是那片地，而盆子的邊緣只是地開始往另一邊傾斜的地方。看得到這個盆子，就看得懂它另一個用法：把雨換成人，把河換成一所學校，形狀完全一樣。Two branches
人流進同一所學校的那一圈
同一個盆子，裡面換成人：住在這一圈裡的家庭，會流向同一所學校、同一家醫院、同一個車站。這是概念上的比喻，不是說這個用法比較晚才出現。
noun · B2
The area around a school, hospital or station that its students, patients or users come from. If your home is inside it, that is normally the one you are sent to.
學區、服務範圍