核心畫面

You can think of disembodied as something that should have a body attached, and does not. The word itself shows the move: body in the middle, dis- in front of it pulling it away. So what is left is a leftover — a spirit with no form, a hand with no arm, a voice with no speaker. Whatever is left behind still works: the spirit still wants something, the hand still reaches, the voice still tells you the train is late. That is the odd feeling the word carries: not absence, but a part carrying on alone.

disembodied 的核心畫面可以想成:本來應該連著身體的東西,現在沒有身體了。這個字自己就演了一次——中間是 更多收起disembodied 的核心畫面可以想成:本來應該連著身體的東西,現在沒有身體了。這個字自己就演了一次——中間是 body,前面的 dis- 把它抽走。剩下來的,是一個沒有形體的靈魂、一隻沒有手臂的手、一個沒有人的聲音。有趣的是,剩下的那一半還在運作:靈魂還有意圖,手還在伸,聲音還在告訴你火車誤點。這個字帶的怪異感就在這裡:不是什麼都沒有,而是有一部分自己繼續著。

Two branches

沒有身體的存在,或被分開的身體部位

這一族是核心畫面最直接的樣子:身體被拿掉了,留下靈魂;或者只留下身體的一小塊,單獨出現。

adjective · C1

Having no body at all, or cut off from the body it belonged to — used both for spirits and souls with no physical form, and for a hand, a head or a lock of hair seen on its own.

脫離肉體的、沒有形體的

只剩聲音,看不到人

同樣是身體被抽走,只是這次剩下來的是聲音。聲音是有主人的東西,主人不在場,就成了這一族。

adjective · C1

Used about a voice or a sound: coming from someone you cannot see, so that it seems to float on its own with no person attached to it.

不見其人的(聲音)