核心畫面

A wooden frame stands with its legs open in the middle of a room, and every bar is covered with washing. The frame itself has nothing to say: its whole job is to hold clothes up and spread them out where they can be seen. Once that picture is pointed at a person, the picture does the criticising for you.

可以想成客廳中間一個張著腳站立的木架,每一根橫桿上都掛滿了衣服。架子本身沒有什麼內容,它唯一的工作就是把衣服撐開、攤更多收起可以想成客廳中間一個張著腳站立的木架,每一根橫桿上都掛滿了衣服。架子本身沒有什麼內容,它唯一的工作就是把衣服撐開、攤在那裡讓空氣(也讓人)看得到。一旦這個畫面被拿去指一個人,不客氣的意思就已經藏在畫面裡了:重要的是掛在身上的那些衣服,不是那個人。

Two branches

晾衣服的架子

核心畫面本身,最字面的一層:真的有這樣一個架子,真的掛著溼衣服。

noun · B1

A standing frame with bars that you open out indoors and hang wet washing on, so that the clothes can dry in the air.

晾衣架

被當成掛衣架的人

把同一個畫面轉向人:如果一個人像那個架子,那麼被看見的是衣服,不是他本人。這是一個教學上的比喻連結,不是在說歷史上誰先誰後。

noun · C1

Someone who cares a great deal about clothes and owns a great many of them. The speaker who chooses this word does not approve, and the source marks it as used most often about women.

衣服控