核心畫面

Picture a travelling companion. One main thing sets off — a war, a plan, a pay rise — and a second thing walks beside it the whole way. The companion is not the journey itself, and nobody invited it; it is there because the journey is happening. The adjective describes that companion walking alongside; the noun points straight at the companion and names it.

可以想成「結伴同行」的畫面。一件主要的事出發了:一場戰爭、一個計畫、一次加薪。旁邊有另一件事一路跟著走。那個跟班不是更多收起可以想成「結伴同行」的畫面。一件主要的事出發了:一場戰爭、一個計畫、一次加薪。旁邊有另一件事一路跟著走。那個跟班不是主角,也沒有人特地邀請它。它會在,是因為主角在走這條路。形容詞用法是在描述「旁邊有人跟著」;名詞用法則是直接把那個跟班指出來、叫出它的名字。兩種用法看的是同一個畫面,只是鏡頭對準的位置不一樣。

From the word’s history

From Latin concomitor, 'to accompany', built from con- ('together') and comes ('companion'), reaching English through Middle French and first attested in 1607. The modern word still carries that picture of something walking along with something else.

來自拉丁文 concomitor(陪同),由 con-(一起)加上 comes(同伴)組成,經中古法文進入英文,最早見於 1607 年。今天的用法還留著那個畫面:有東西一路跟著另一樣東西走。

Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:564271608:10377)

One branch

跟著一起出現的那件事

兩個詞性共用同一個畫面:主要的事在前面走,另一件事跟在旁邊。差別只在形容詞是在描述這個同行狀態,名詞是直接把同行的那個東西點名出來。

adjective · C2

Existing or happening at the same time as something else, especially as a result of it.

伴隨的