核心畫面
One way to picture it: the hand gathered in on itself — fingers curled to the palm, thumb locked over them — so that an open, soft thing becomes one hard, single object.
一隻手把自己收攏起來。手指往掌心捲進去，拇指壓在外面扣住，原本張開的、軟的手就變成一塊硬的、完整的東西。這個畫面裡有…更多收起
一隻手把自己收攏起來。手指往掌心捲進去，拇指壓在外面扣住，原本張開的、軟的手就變成一塊硬的、完整的東西。這個畫面裡有兩件事同時發生：一是「收緊」（所以生氣、用力、緊張時會不自覺握拳），二是「變成一個能打出去的整體」。英文裡跟 fist 有關的說法，多半都是從這隻收攏起來的手長出來的。From the word’s history
From Old English fȳst, from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti; the root is uncertain but may go back to Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- 'to punch, to prick, stab'.
來自古英語 fȳst，再往上是原始西日耳曼語 *fūsti。更早的來源學界並不確定，一種可能是原始印歐語的 *pewǵ-「打、刺」。如果這條線成立，那麼「握起來的手」跟「打出去」從一開始就綁在一起——不過這一段標註為 uncertain，當成參考就好，不必當定論。
Wiktionary 'fist' (noun) etymology: Old English fȳst ← Proto-West Germanic *fūsti, 'of uncertain origin, but possibly from PIE *pewǵ-'
原始詞典資料16 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fistnoun詞源 1/fɪst/
- 1
A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
- The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
- 2
Synonym of manicule.
- 3
The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
- 4
slangA person's characteristic handwriting.
- 5
A group of men.
- 6
The talons of a bird of prey.
- More light then Culver in the Faulcons fist.
- 7
informalAn attempt at something.
- City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage. Yes, it is way too early to make snap judgments about the impact on the title race. It has, however, been long enough to ascertain that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are going to make a much better fist of it this time.
- With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
fistverb詞源 1/fɪst/
- 1
To strike with the fist.
- ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball.
- 2
To close (the hand) into a fist.
- He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
- 3
To grip with a fist.
- I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
- 4
slangTo fist-fuck.
- 5
gamesgamingTo stomp, to utterly defeat
fistverb詞源 2/fɪst/
- 1
To break wind.
fistnoun詞源 2/fɪst/
- 1
The act of breaking wind; fise.
- 2
A puffball.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。