馬路上的那條車道
核心畫面的字面版本：真正的柏油路、真正的車、真正的超車。
noun · B1
The lane on a wide road where the traffic moves fastest — the one drivers pull into when they want to get past slower cars. A road usually has just one on each side.
快車道
核心畫面
Picture a wide road with the traffic sorted by speed. Out at one edge is the lane nobody sits in for long: cars come into it fast, sweep past everything else, and drop back out. It is the quickest way through and also the least forgiving place to be, because a car that stops there stops in front of everything moving. Both meanings of fast lane are that same lane. One is the strip of tarmac itself; the other hands the picture to a person and describes a life lived at that speed, with the same shine and the same risk.
可以想成一條大馬路，車子照速度分成好幾道。最外面那一條，沒有人會一直待著：車子切進去、一路超過旁邊所有車、然後再切出…更多收起
可以想成一條大馬路，車子照速度分成好幾道。最外面那一條，沒有人會一直待著：車子切進去、一路超過旁邊所有車、然後再切出來。它是最快的路線，也是最不容錯的位置——在那裡停下來，等於擋在所有還在跑的車前面。fast lane 的兩個意思用的都是這條車道。一個講的是柏油路上那條道；另一個把這個畫面交給一個人，用來形容他的日子開得多快，連帶著同樣的亮眼和同樣的風險。Two branches
比喻：開得太快的人生
同一條車道，換成一個人的日子。刺激和危險是一起搬過去的，不會只搬一半。
noun · B2
A way of living that is exciting, expensive and risky — lots of money, late nights, big plans and danger, rather than a calm and safe life.
刺激又冒險的生活