核心畫面

One way to hold disaster area: a photograph taken after the water goes down. Things are where they should not be, nothing is where it belongs, and you can see at a glance that something rolled through here. English keeps using that photograph even when the only thing that rolled through was a party.

disaster area 可以想成一張水退之後拍的照片:東西全在不該在的位置,一眼就看得出來這裡被什麼掃過。英文一更多收起disaster area 可以想成一張水退之後拍的照片:東西全在不該在的位置,一眼就看得出來這裡被什麼掃過。英文一直在用這張照片。就算掃過去的只是一場派對,照片還是同一張。

Two branches

真的災區

照片就是照片,沒有比喻:真的有水災、風災、火災或地震來過。

noun · B1

A place where a flood, storm, fire or earthquake has caused a lot of damage. When a government officially declares a place a disaster area, the people and groups there can receive help and money.

災區

借那張照片來誇張

把同一張照片蓋到自己的房間或桌上。正因為原本的意思很嚴重,拿來形容一堆衣服和舊考卷才好笑。

noun · B1

An informal way of saying that a place is extremely untidy or dirty, so that it looks as if something terrible has happened to it.

一團亂的地方