核心畫面

Picture cotton pulled apart until it is mostly air: a light, springy, white mass. It holds liquid, it presses down and comes back up, and it can sit around anything as a soft layer. That same mass shows up twice in real life — as the crop coming off the plant, and as the ball in the bathroom cabinet. And once you can see a person packed inside it, the expression about protecting someone almost explains itself.

可以想成一團被拉鬆的棉花:很輕、很軟、中間都是空氣。它很會吸水,壓下去還會彈回來,放在任何東西外面都能當一層緩衝。這更多收起可以想成一團被拉鬆的棉花:很輕、很軟、中間都是空氣。它很會吸水,壓下去還會彈回來,放在任何東西外面都能當一層緩衝。這團東西在生活裡出現兩次:一次是剛從田裡採下來的棉絮,一次是藥箱裡那球擦傷口的棉花。如果把一個人整個包進這團棉花裡,那句「過度保護」的說法幾乎就自己講清楚了。

Two branches

棉花這團東西本身

這一組就是那團棉花的兩種樣子:一種還在田裡,一種已經進了藥箱。

noun · B1

Soft, loose cotton pulled into a light mass that soaks up liquid, used for cleaning a cut, putting medicine or make-up on the skin, and as soft padding around things.

藥用棉花/脫脂棉

把人包進棉花裡

緩衝的畫面不變,只是被包起來的東西從杯子換成了人。

noun · B2

If you wrap someone in cotton wool, you keep them so safe from danger, difficulty and disappointment that they never get to handle anything hard by themselves.

過度保護