剪下一小塊
這一支直接坐在核心畫面上：clip 這個動作，加上 -er。
noun · B1
A small tool with two blades that cut small pieces off something — your nails, your hair, or thin branches. The word is used in the plural: clippers, or a pair of clippers.
剪具（指甲剪、推剪）
核心畫面
Hold the sound of the word: clip. Two edges come together and a small piece comes away — a nail, a lock of hair, a twig, a of silver. Everything in the cutting family is that one snap, seen from a different side: the tool that does it, the person or machine that does it, and the act itself turned into a verb.
先抓住這個字的聲音：clip。兩片邊緣一夾，一小塊就掉下來——一片指甲、一撮頭髮、一根細枝、一點銀屑。剪的那一支意思…更多收起
先抓住這個字的聲音：clip。兩片邊緣一夾，一小塊就掉下來——一片指甲、一撮頭髮、一根細枝、一點銀屑。剪的那一支意思，全部都是這一夾，只是站在不同角度看：夾的工具、拿工具在夾的人或機器、還有把這個動作本身變成動詞。From the word’s history
From Middle English clipper, that is clip (cut, shorten) plus the agent suffix -er. The ship sense is probably also from clip, but in its other sense of moving or running rapidly, perhaps helped along by Middle Dutch klepper, a swift horse.
來自中古英語 clipper，也就是 clip（剪、弄短）加上 -er（做這件事的人或東西）。船那一支的來源可能也是 clip，但用的是它另一個意思「飛奔」，而且可能受到中古荷蘭文 klepper（快馬）的影響。所以同一個拼法下面，其實躺著兩條線：剪，和快。
Wiktionary entry clipper, etymology_text supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1284610070:28025)
Two branches
跑得飛快的東西
這一支接的不是「剪」，而是 clip 的另一個意思「飛奔」，所以它不必硬拉回刀口那個畫面。
noun · B2
A fast sailing ship used in the past, with a long, low body and a front that leans sharply forward, built to carry goods quickly over long distances.
快速帆船