那把工具
這一族就是核心畫面本身:實際握在手上的那把工具。
noun · B2
A small tool for pulling the cork out of a bottle. The working part is a piece of metal twisted round and round like a spring; you turn it down into the cork and then pull the cork straight up.
(螺旋式)開瓶器
One way to hold corkscrew: a piece of metal wound round and round like a spring, which only grips when you turn it and only moves forward while it turns. Everything else the word does is that one piece of metal handed over to something else — its shape to hair and staircases, its motion to planes, smoke and mountain roads.
From cork + screw, so the name is literally the screw you use on a cork.
這個字由 cork(軟木塞)和 screw(螺絲)組成,字面上就是「對付軟木塞的那根螺絲」。名字直接寫出了工具的長相,所以後來借去形容捲髮、旋轉樓梯和盤旋的動作時,讀者一聽就懂。
Wiktionary entries for corkscrew (noun, adj, verb), supplied in this packet: 'From cork + screw.'
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那把工具
這一族就是核心畫面本身:實際握在手上的那把工具。
noun · B2
A small tool for pulling the cork out of a bottle. The working part is a piece of metal twisted round and round like a spring; you turn it down into the cork and then pull the cork straight up.
(螺旋式)開瓶器
把形狀借出去
把核心畫面裡「捲得很緊、沿著一條線繞下去」這一點單獨抽出來,擺到名詞前面。
adjective · C1
Twisted or curled round and round in tight rings, in the shape of the metal part of a corkscrew.
螺旋狀的;捲得很緊的