Picture gas that has built up inside a body and has to come out. It arrives with a noise, or a smell, or both. Nobody planned it, nobody can take it back, and everyone in the room notices. That mix — something pushed out from inside, unwanted, and impossible to ignore — is what the word carries everywhere it goes. Point it at a machine and the machine sounds dirty and rude; point it at a person and the person sounds like something nobody wants to sit next to.

可以想成身體裡積起來的一股氣,非出來不可。它出來時帶著聲音,或味道,或兩者都有。沒有人計畫它,也收不回去,而且在場的人全都察覺得到。這個組合——從裡面被推出來、沒人想要、又沒辦法假裝沒發生——就是這個字帶著到處跑的東西。用在機器上,那台機器聽起來又髒又不客氣;用在人身上,那個人聽起來就像沒人想坐在旁邊的東西。

From the word’s history

The source records a very old and unchanged word: Middle English ferten and farten, going back through Old English to Proto-Germanic and Proto-Indo-European forms with the same meaning. The noun is recorded as coming from the verb, which fits the picture: the act first, the thing second.

來源記載這是個非常老又沒變過的字:中古英文 ferten、farten,再往前經古英文到更早的日耳曼語和印歐語形式,意思一路相同。來源也寫明名詞是從動詞來的。這剛好對上畫面的順序:先有「推出來」這個動作,才有「一個屁」這個東西。

Wiktionary, "fart"

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