核心畫面

Hold one picture: two floors, one sitting directly on top of the other, inside a single thing. A deck is a floor you can stand on, the way a ship has decks. Put a second deck above the first and you have a double-decker — and once you can see that shape, every other use of the word is the same shape in a different material.

可以想成一個很單純的形狀:兩層樓板,一層直接疊在另一層上面,而且合起來還是同一個東西。deck 本來指船上的甲板,也更多收起可以想成一個很單純的形狀:兩層樓板,一層直接疊在另一層上面,而且合起來還是同一個東西。deck 本來指船上的甲板,也就是一層站得住人的樓板。在第一層上面再加一層,就是 double-decker。抓住這個形狀之後,其他用法都只是換了材料:換成吐司、換成床、換成蛋糕,形狀還是那個形狀。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives the form as double + deck + -er, that is, the thing that has two decks.

來源資料寫的是 double + deck + -er,字面就是「有兩層甲板的那個東西」。-er 在這裡不是指人,而是指「帶有這個特徵的物品」。

Wiktionary etymology_text in packet: From double + deck + -er (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1401598822)

Two branches

兩層的車

這一支是形狀的原始位置:真的有兩層樓板,而且人可以在上面走動。

noun · B1

A bus with two floors, one on top of the other, so that people can sit upstairs or downstairs. The word is also used for trains and planes built the same way.

雙層巴士

疊成兩層的東西

形狀被借出去,材料換掉,兩層疊在一起的骨架留著。

noun · B2

Any thing that is built as two layers or parts stacked one above the other.

雙層的東西