核心畫面

One way to hold this word: something has been thrown, hard, and it has landed a long way from your hand. Both meanings are still standing at the throwing point, looking out. Throw once and a single thing lies far off in the distance. Throw a handful and the pieces come down all over the map, far from you and far from each other.

可以想成用力把東西往外一丟的畫面:東西落下來的地方,離你的手很遠。這個字的兩個意思都還站在丟的那一點往外看。丟一樣東更多收起可以想成用力把東西往外一丟的畫面:東西落下來的地方,離你的手很遠。這個字的兩個意思都還站在丟的那一點往外看。丟一樣東西,它就落在很遠的地方;抓一把撒出去,碎片就散得滿地都是——離你遠,彼此之間也遠。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records far plus flung (thrown), suggesting something thrown a long way away from oneself. The modern uses are still that picture.

來源記載這個字是 far(遠)加上 flung(丟出去的),指的是被丟到離自己很遠的地方。今天的用法基本上還是同一個畫面,沒有走遠。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract, entry far-flung): From far + flung (thrown), suggesting something which has been thrown a long distance away from oneself.

Two branches

落點很遠(單一地點)

丟一次,看的是那樣東西落在多遠的地方。

adjective · C1

Very far away — used about places that are a long way from where you are or from the big towns and cities, and about anything found in such places.

遙遠的、偏遠的

散得開(一整群)

同一個動作,但這次丟出去的是一把東西,所以重點從「多遠」變成「散得多開」。

adjective · C1

Spread out over a very large area, so that the people, parts or places in the group are a long way from one another, and often thinly spread as well.

分散各地的