實體碎成小塊
核心畫面最直接的一支：碎掉的是看得見、摸得到的東西。
verb · B2
To break into many small pieces, or to make something break into many small pieces, so that the whole thing no longer exists as one object.
碎裂、分解
核心畫面
A useful picture: something that was one whole thing, going back to being many small pieces. Not a clean break into two halves — a loss of the very thing that made it one. Whatever held it together stops holding.
可以想成一個原本完整的東西，正在變回一堆小碎片。它不是乾乾淨淨裂成兩半。是「讓它成為一個整體的那件事」失效了。本來把…更多收起
可以想成一個原本完整的東西，正在變回一堆小碎片。它不是乾乾淨淨裂成兩半。是「讓它成為一個整體的那件事」失效了。本來把它綁在一起的力量，鬆開了。From the word’s history
The source records the word from 1785, formed from dis- plus integrate. Integrate makes many into one; dis- turns that around, so the word names one going back to many.
資料記載這個字 1785 年出現，由 dis- 加 integrate 組成。integrate 是把很多變成一個。dis- 把這個動作反過來，於是這個字講的就是一個變回很多。
Wiktionary 'disintegrate' etymology: Recorded since 1785, from dis- + integrate (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:786678400)
Two branches
組織與關係的瓦解
同一個畫面搬到看不見的東西上：散掉的不是材料，而是把人綁在一起的那條線。
verb · B2
If a group, a relationship, or a system disintegrates, it grows weaker and less united over time until it is destroyed.
瓦解、崩解