身體：大腸
這一支就是核心畫面本身。
colon (bowel) · noun · B2
the lower part of the bowels, the long tube inside your body where water is taken back from the food you have eaten and the rest is changed into waste.
結腸；大腸
核心畫面
These are two different words that happen to share a spelling — one names a part of the body, the other a mark on a page, and no picture honestly covers both. The anchor here is the bodily one: a picture you can hold of the wide tube at the end of the road, where what is left of your food gives up its water and is turned into waste before leaving. The mark is a separate word with its own history; treat the two as neighbours who share an address, not relatives.
這其實是兩個剛好長得一樣的字：一個指身體的一段器官，一個指紙上的一個符號，沒有哪個畫面能誠實地同時涵蓋兩者。這裡的錨…更多收起
這其實是兩個剛好長得一樣的字：一個指身體的一段器官，一個指紙上的一個符號，沒有哪個畫面能誠實地同時涵蓋兩者。這裡的錨點取身體那個：核心畫面可以想成消化道最後那一段粗管子，食物走到這裡已經沒剩什麼養分，水分在這裡被收回身體，剩下的被整理成廢物準備排出。至於標點符號那個 colon，是另一個來源、另一段歷史的字——兩者的關係比較像住在同一個門牌下的鄰居，不是親戚。Two branches
書寫：冒號（另一條來源）
這一支不是從腸道的畫面比喻出來的，而是完全另一條歷史路線（源自古希臘修辭學裡指「句子的一個段落、一個成分」的用法），只是在英文裡拼成了同樣的四個字母。硬要把它連回大腸，會是假的。
colon (punctuation) · noun · B2
the mark (:) used in writing and printing to show that an explanation, an example, a list, or someone's exact words comes next.
冒號
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Colonname
- 1
A surname.
colonnoun詞源 1/ˈkəʊ.lən/
- 1
The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.
- A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause.
- 2
rareThe triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
- 3
A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
- 4
biologyepigraphygeographyA clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
colonnoun詞源 2/ˈkəʊ.lən/
- 1
anatomymedicinesciencesPart of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)
- Colorectal cancer refers to colon cancer, which starts in the colon, and rectal cancer, which starts in the rectum.
colonnoun詞源 3/kəˈlɒn/
- 1
obsoleteA husbandman.
- 2
A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
- The reaction of the European colons, a mixture of shock and fear, was to demand further draconian measures and to suspend any suggestion of new reforms.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。