核心畫面

Picture a spell that has already been cast and has settled. The thing it landed on still looks ordinary — a forest, a castle, a ring — but it no longer behaves the way it should. Enchanted names that state, the after of the magic rather than the doing of it. Move the same picture onto a person and nothing changes except what did the work: a voice, a gift, a small town holds you in place as if a spell had.

可以想成有人對著一樣東西唸完了咒,咒已經停在上面。東西外表沒變,行為卻變了:森林會自己換路,劍會發光,門只為一個人開更多收起可以想成有人對著一樣東西唸完了咒,咒已經停在上面。東西外表沒變,行為卻變了:森林會自己換路,劍會發光,門只為一個人開。enchanted 記的就是「咒已經下好之後」的狀態,不是施法的動作。把同樣的畫面移到人身上,換的只是誰在施法:一個聲音、一束花、一座小鎮,把你定在那裡走不開。連舊時代見面說的一句 Enchanted,也像是在說「你剛剛把我迷住了」。

Two branches

真的被下了魔法

這一支就是核心畫面的字面版:故事裡的地方或東西真的被施了法。

adjective · B2

Changed by magic, so that it has powers an ordinary thing would not have. It is used about places, objects and animals in stories and games.

被施了魔法的

像被下了魔法一樣著迷

把「被下咒」的畫面拿來形容感覺:不是真的有魔法,而是某樣東西讓人挪不開眼睛。這是教學上的聯想,不是在說歷史上誰先誰後。

adjective · B2

Feeling a soft, warm delight in someone or something you like very much, so that you keep looking at it or listening to it. It is usually followed by with or by.

著迷;深深喜歡