核心畫面

Think of two bones that meet at a joint. Each one sits in its own place, and because it sits there the arm can lift, the knee can bend, the hand can close. Now push one of them out of that place. Nothing is missing and nothing is broken — but the parts no longer meet, so the whole thing stops working and the shape looks wrong. That is the picture the word carries wherever it goes: a piece knocked out of its place, and everything that depended on that place going still.

dislocate 的核心畫面可以想成兩根骨頭相接的那個關節。每根骨頭都待在自己的位置上,因為待在那裡,手臂才抬得起更多收起dislocate 的核心畫面可以想成兩根骨頭相接的那個關節。每根骨頭都待在自己的位置上,因為待在那裡,手臂才抬得起來、膝蓋才彎得下去。現在把其中一根推出那個位置。東西沒有少,也沒有斷——但兩邊接不上了,整隻手就動不了,外形看起來也不對。這個畫面走到哪裡都跟著它:一塊東西被撞離原位,所有靠那個位置運作的事情,就跟著停下來。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives the make-up of the word directly: dis- plus locate. The prefix means away or apart and locate means to put in place, so the word says out of its place before it says anything about bones.

Wiktionary 直接給了這個字的組成:dis- 加 locate。dis- 是「離開、分開」,locate 是「放到位置上」。所以這個字在講到骨頭之前,字面上先講的就是「離開了它的位置」。

Wiktionary entry for dislocate (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:792574080), etymology_text supplied in this packet: 'From dis- + locate.'

From the picture

安排好的環節接不上

把關節放大成一整套安排。班表、配送、預約系統,每一塊本來都扣著下一塊;被撞開之後零件都還在,就是接不起來。

verb · C1

To upset the way a plan, a system or a service is arranged, so that it can no longer work in the normal way.

打亂、擾亂運作

人被抽離自己的位置

最後一步是把畫面搬進人的感覺裡。這次脫離位置的不是骨頭,也不是流程,而是「我屬於這裡」的那種踏實感。

verb · C1

To make someone feel unsettled and out of place, as if they no longer fit where they are.

使人失去歸屬感

Also in this word

verb · B2

To push a bone out of its normal position where it meets another bone in a joint, usually by accident. The bone is not broken; it has come out of place, and it hurts a lot.

脫臼

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

dislocateverb/dɪsləʊˈkeɪt/

  • 1

    To put something out of its usual place.

  • 2

    To emotionally jar, unsettle, or disorient.

    • Jarman is out to shock us, not only with some explicit sexuality (as much as he can get away with and still have his film funded by the BBC) but also with a dislocating juxtaposition of historical detail and sensibility.
  • 3

    medicinesciencesTo (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.

    • Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。