棒球場上的一壘
這一族還在球場上，一個講地上的那個點，一個講站在旁邊的那份工作。
noun · B1
In baseball, the first of the four places on the field that a runner has to touch, in order, before scoring a point. It is the one a batter runs to as soon as the ball is hit.
一壘（壘包）
核心畫面
One way to hold first base is as the nearest bag on a baseball field, the one a batter runs to the moment the ball is hit. Getting there means something real: you are safe, you are on the field, you are alive in the play. It also means very little: nobody has scored, and three more places still lie between you and a point. That double feeling of a start that is only a start is what the phrase carries off the field as well.
first base 可以想成棒球場上離本壘最近的那個壘包。球一打出去，打者拼命跑的第一個目標就是它。踩上去，是真的…更多收起
first base 可以想成棒球場上離本壘最近的那個壘包。球一打出去，打者拼命跑的第一個目標就是它。踩上去，是真的有進度：你安全了，你還在場上。可是它同時也很小：分數一分都還沒進，前面還有三個點要過。這種「有了開頭，但也就只是開頭」的感覺，正是這個詞離開球場以後還帶著走的東西。Two branches
比喻：最起碼的第一步
把「上到一壘還沒得分」整個畫面搬離球場，就成了「有開頭、但離成功還很遠」。兩個意思都固定長在 get to first base 這組字上，不是 first base 自己的意思。
noun · B2
To get past the very first step of something you are trying to do, so that you have made a start and nothing more. It is often used in the negative, to say that someone did not manage even that much.
跨出第一步、有最起碼的進展