核心畫面

Picture a in a workshop. Raw material lies on it, and someone cuts it, shapes it and joins the pieces until a finished thing stands there that did not exist before. The Latin behind the word, fabrica, is exactly that workshop. Everything the word does is a version of that bench: metal parts made to a drawing, a whole chicken broken down into even pieces, and — with the material swapped for words — a story built to be believed.

可以想成一張工作台。上面放著材料,有人把它切開、彎好、接起來,最後台上多出一件本來不存在的成品。這個字的拉丁來源 f更多收起可以想成一張工作台。上面放著材料,有人把它切開、彎好、接起來,最後台上多出一件本來不存在的成品。這個字的拉丁來源 fabrica,指的就是工匠的作坊。它所有的用法都是同一張工作台的不同版本:照圖做出來的金屬零件、被分解成大小一致部位的一整隻雞,還有一種——材料換成了話,做出來的是一套要讓人相信的說法。

From the word’s history

From Latin fabrica (a workshop, a building) through fabricor, so the word starts at the workbench: making a finished thing out of material.

來自拉丁文 fabrica(作坊、建築),經由 fabricor 進入英文,所以出發點就在工作台上:把材料做成成品。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:429764698:22787): From Middle English fabricaten, from Latin fabricatus, participle of fabricor, from fabrica (a fabric, building).

Two branches

把材料做成成品

這一群就站在工作台前,材料是看得見、摸得到的東西。

verb · C1

To make goods, parts or equipment, especially by cutting and joining pieces of material together in a factory or workshop.

製造;組裝

憑空做出一套說法

同樣是動手做出成品,只是這次的材料是話,成品是一套要讓人相信的說法。

verb · C1

To make up a story, a piece of information, or evidence that is not true, so that other people will believe it and be deceived.

捏造;編造