核心畫面

The whole word is on the outside: cross plus bar, one bar lying across from one side to the other. Stand two uprights in the ground, lay a bar over them, and you have the shape. Every meaning of the word is that same bar, seen in a different place.

這個字的意思就寫在字面上:cross(橫過去)加上 bar(桿子)。可以想成把兩根東西立起來,再拿一根桿子橫著架上去更多收起這個字的意思就寫在字面上:cross(橫過去)加上 bar(桿子)。可以想成把兩根東西立起來,再拿一根桿子橫著架上去。那個形狀就是 crossbar。它通常在做三件事的其中一件。把兩邊撐開、把兩邊接住、或者把路擋起來。球門上面那一根、腳踏車上從坐墊接到龍頭那一根,都是同一根桿子出現在不同的地方而已。

From the word’s history

From Middle English crose bar: cross- plus bar. The compound still says exactly what the thing is.

這個字來自中古英文的 crose bar,也就是 cross- 加上 bar。它是一個到今天都還「看字就懂」的複合字,意思沒有跑掉。

Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1090046967:16142): from Middle English crose bar, equivalent to cross- + bar.

One branch

橫著架上去的那一根

一個家族就夠了:核心是那根橫桿,另外兩個意思是它固定出現的兩個位置。

noun · B2

Any bar fixed across something from one side to the other, such as a bar that holds a door shut or the bar through the top of an anchor.

橫桿;橫檔