真的在買賣牛隻的市場
這一支就是畫面本身，沒有任何比喻。
noun · B2
A place where cattle — the cows and bulls kept on farms — are bought and sold.
牲口市場；牛市
核心畫面
A yard full of pens. Animals standing in rows, and buyers walking slowly along the rail, looking each one over and deciding what it is worth. Nothing about the animal counts except what can be seen from outside. Both meanings of this phrase live inside that one scene: the first is the scene itself, the second is what happens when people are put in it.
可以想成一個圍欄場：牛一排排站著，買家沿著欄杆慢慢走，一隻一隻打量，然後心裡定出一個價錢。這個畫面裡最關鍵的不是牛，…更多收起
可以想成一個圍欄場：牛一排排站著，買家沿著欄杆慢慢走，一隻一隻打量，然後心裡定出一個價錢。這個畫面裡最關鍵的不是牛，而是「被人一個一個看過去，只用外表決定價值」。cattle market 的兩個意思都住在這個畫面裡：第一個就是這個場景本身，第二個是把人放進這個場景之後的感覺。Two branches
把人放進那個圍欄的場合
把買家打量牛隻的動作原封不動搬到人身上，所以一講出口就帶著不滿。
noun · C1
An event or place where people, especially women, are looked over and judged only on how they look, as if they were animals being priced. The speaker who uses the phrase is showing that they think this is wrong.
像在挑牲口的場合