核心畫面

Picture a courtroom at the moment the judge speaks. The arguing is over, the decision is written down, and what is read out cannot be taken back by anyone in the room. That announced, fixed, ending is the shape of this phrase. Every use keeps the shape and changes who is speaking: sometimes a judge, sometimes an illness, sometimes a government signing a piece of paper.

可以想成法庭上法官開口的那一刻。爭論已經結束,決定寫進了紀錄,念出來的東西,屋子裡沒有人能收回去。那種「已經宣布、已更多收起可以想成法庭上法官開口的那一刻。爭論已經結束,決定寫進了紀錄,念出來的東西,屋子裡沒有人能收回去。那種「已經宣布、已經定案、沒得爭」的感覺,就是這個詞的形狀。三個意思都保留這個形狀,換掉的只是坐在法官位置上的是誰:有時候是法官,有時候是一場病,有時候是一份政府蓋章的文件。

Two branches

法庭上真正的判決

這一家就是字面本身:法官宣布的處罰內容是死亡。後面兩個意思都是從這個場景借畫面出去用的。

noun · B2

The punishment of death, decided and ordered by a court, for a person the court has found guilty of a very serious crime.

死刑判決

借法庭的口氣說「已經定了」

這兩個意思把法官的位置讓給了別的東西,但保留了「宣布之後改不了」的那股勁。這是概念上的借用,方便理解,不是在說歷史上先有哪一個。

noun · B2

An illness or condition that makes people feel certain the person who has it is going to die from it.

等於宣判死亡(絕症)