核心畫面

You can think of fizz as one small event repeated thousands of times: a bubble climbs, reaches the surface and breaks. One bubble alone would be silent. Thousands together make a thin, steady , and that is inside the word itself. Every use of fizz keeps some part of that picture: the bubbles you see, the sound you hear, the drink that is full of both, or something moving so fast that the air as it passes.

fizz 可以想成一件很小的事,重複了幾千次:一顆氣泡往上爬,到了表面破掉。只有一顆的話是沒有聲音的。幾千顆一起,就更多收起fizz 可以想成一件很小的事,重複了幾千次:一顆氣泡往上爬,到了表面破掉。只有一顆的話是沒有聲音的。幾千顆一起,就變成細細的、不停的「嘶——」,而這個聲音就住在字音裡面。fizz 的每個用法都留著這幅畫的一部分:你看到的泡泡、你聽到的聲音、整杯都是泡泡的那種酒,或是快到讓空氣發出嘶聲的東西。

From the word’s history

The source marks fizz as onomatopoeia — a word made out of the sound it names. That is why the picture and the pronunciation match so closely: the long z at the end is itself a hiss.

資料把 fizz 標成擬聲字(onomatopoeia),也就是照著聲音造出來的字。所以畫面和讀音幾乎重疊:字尾拖長的 z,本身就是那個嘶聲。

Wiktionary (kaikki snapshot 3f6f69a190036ae4), fizz noun/verb entries, etymology_text: "Onomatopoeia."

Three branches

液體冒泡,以及那個聲音

這一族就是核心畫面本身,只差在一個當動作講、一個當東西講。

verb · B2

If a drink or another liquid fizzes, a lot of tiny gas bubbles rise through it and burst, making a soft, continuous hissing sound.

冒泡;滋滋作響

用泡泡來叫那種酒

倒進杯子裡最搶眼的就是滿杯氣泡,於是泡泡的名字被拿來當酒的名字。

noun · C1

Champagne. This is an informal British word for it, used most often when people are celebrating something.

香檳

快到讓空氣發出嘶聲

這一族把核心畫面裡的「聲音」單獨抽出來,換到會飛的東西身上。

verb · C1

To fly through the air very fast, often with a hissing sound; you can also fizz a ball or a shot somewhere, meaning you send it flying like that. It is used mostly in sports reports.

疾射;呼嘯而過