地上的線:劃它,和它本身
這一支就是核心畫面的兩面:做記號的那件事,和做完以後留下的那條線。
noun · C1
The fixed line itself that separates two areas of land or two armies, agreed in a treaty or a ceasefire — usually called a demarcation line.
分界線
One way to hold this word: someone walks along the ground making marks, and from then on the two sides of those marks belong to different people. Every use keeps that shape — a line that was decided, then treated as real.
Wiktionary records demarcation as entering English around 1752 from Spanish línea de demarcación / Portuguese linha de demarcação, the line the Pope laid down in 1493 dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal; demarcar is de- plus marcar, to mark. The marking is where the word starts.
根據 Wiktionary,demarcation 大約 1752 年進入英文,來自西班牙文 línea de demarcación、葡萄牙文 linha de demarcação——1493 年教宗畫下的那條線,把新世界分給西班牙和葡萄牙。demarcar 是 de- 加 marcar(做記號)。所以這個字從「做記號」開始,難怪今天的用法都圍著一條線打轉。
Wiktionary entry 'demarcation' (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:494244570:21792), etymology_text
Two branches
地上的線:劃它,和它本身
這一支就是核心畫面的兩面:做記號的那件事,和做完以後留下的那條線。
noun · C1
The fixed line itself that separates two areas of land or two armies, agreed in a treaty or a ceasefire — usually called a demarcation line.
分界線
看不見的線:職責與範圍
把同一條線搬到看不見的地方:地上沒有記號,但大家照樣知道自己到哪裡為止。這是概念上的延伸,不是在主張歷史上先有哪一個。
noun · C1
The point where one person's or one group's area of work, duty or authority ends and another's begins.
職責分界