核心畫面

Picture a truck backing up to the edge of an empty lot, tipping its whole load over the side, and driving off without looking back. Two things make the picture: nobody sorts anything, and nobody comes back. That is what the word carries everywhere it goes. Change what is in the truck and you get the other uses — files and boxes nobody will deal with, or, at its hardest, people nobody will deal with.

可以想成一輛卡車倒退到空地邊上,整車東西往下一倒,然後頭也不回地開走。這個畫面有兩個重點:沒有人分類,也沒有人回來處更多收起可以想成一輛卡車倒退到空地邊上,整車東西往下一倒,然後頭也不回地開走。這個畫面有兩個重點:沒有人分類,也沒有人回來處理。這兩點跟著這個詞跑到每一種用法裡。把車上載的東西換掉,就得到其他意思——換成沒人想整理的檔案和雜物,或者,最重的那一種,換成沒人想處理的人。

Two branches

真的倒垃圾的地方

畫面照字面發生:車上是廢棄物,地上是一塊地。

noun · B2

A place where people leave trash and other waste they want to get rid of, often a piece of land or water that was never meant for it.

垃圾傾倒場

不想處理的都往那裡推

車上的東西不再是垃圾,但「沒人分類、沒人回來」這兩點原封不動地留著。

noun · B2

A place, a folder, a room, or a part of a plan that ends up holding everything people do not want to deal with, because it is easy to push things there.

什麼都往裡丟的地方