愛神本人，以及他被畫下來的樣子
這一組最靠近那個畫面本身：先是拿著弓的神，再是被畫下來、刻下來的那個小人。
noun · B2
The Roman god of love, written with a capital C. In pictures he is a beautiful boy with wings who carries a bow and arrow, and the person his arrow hits falls in love.
邱比特（愛神）
核心畫面
You can hold one picture behind every use of this word: a boy with a bow, and an arrow already pointing at somebody who has not noticed him. Two things in that picture do all the work. The arrow comes from outside the person, so the love is not something they chose or saw coming. And somebody is aiming it, so the love has an author. Follow the arrow and you get the sudden falling in love. Follow the archer and you get the friend who arranges the meeting. Freeze the boy himself and you get the little figure printed on a card.
可以把 Cupid 想成一個定住的畫面：一個有翅膀的小男孩，手上一把弓，箭已經對準了某個還沒發現他的人。這個畫面裡有…更多收起
可以把 Cupid 想成一個定住的畫面：一個有翅膀的小男孩，手上一把弓，箭已經對準了某個還沒發現他的人。這個畫面裡有兩樣東西在運作。第一是那支箭從人的外面飛過來，所以愛不是自己挑的，也沒有預兆。第二是有人在瞄準，所以這件事有人出手。順著箭看過去，就得到「突然愛上」。順著射箭的人看過去，就得到「幫朋友牽線的人」。把那個小男孩本身定格下來，就得到卡片上印的那個小圖案。From the word’s history
The supplied Wiktionary entry traces the name to Latin Cupido, a personification of cupido (desire, desire of love), from cupio (to desire). So the figure began as the feeling itself given a body, which fits the modern uses: the word keeps pointing at desire that arrives rather than desire that is built.
資料裡的字源說明把這個名字追到拉丁文 Cupīdō，它是 cupīdō（渴望、愛的慾望）被人格化的結果，而 cupīdō 來自動詞 cupiō（想要）。也就是說，這個角色一開始就是「慾望」長出了身體。這條線索和今天的用法對得上：這個字指的一直是突然湧上來的感情，不是慢慢養出來的。
Wiktionary entry for Cupid supplied in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:733995325:40342)
Two branches
箭射出去：讓愛情發生
這一組不看那個小人，看的是他的動作：箭一旦射出去，兩個人之間就有事發生。
noun · B2
To try to get two people to fall in love with each other, usually by introducing them, talking one of them up, or arranging for them to spend time together.
當紅娘、幫人牽線