核心畫面

One way to hold crumpled: a flat sheet of paper that a hand has just squeezed. It is smaller now, the surface is full of folds, and opening it out does not make it flat again. Every use of the word points at that one shape — what is left behind after something has been pressed together.

crumpled 可以想成一張平平的紙,被手一握之後的樣子。它縮小了,表面全是折線,攤開也回不到平的。三個用法都在講更多收起crumpled 可以想成一張平平的紙,被手一握之後的樣子。它縮小了,表面全是折線,攤開也回不到平的。三個用法都在講同一個形狀:被擠壓過以後留下來的樣子。紙是這樣,塞在包底的襯衫是這樣,跌倒後縮在地上的人,看起來也是這樣。

Two branches

被壓皺的東西

這一組就是核心畫面本身:一個東西被擠壓過,留下滿滿的折痕。

adjective · B2

Pressed or squeezed into a smaller, bent shape, so that a surface that used to be flat is now full of folds and lines. Used about paper, cans, packaging, metal and other things that lose their smooth shape when they are crushed.

壓皺的/皺成一團的

跌倒後癱著的身體

把紙的形狀搬到人身上:身體像被揉過一樣折在一起。這是比喻上的延伸,不是另一個來源。

adjective · C1

Used about a person who has fallen and is lying still, with their body bent and folded into an odd shape, as if they had been pressed together.

癱成一團地倒著