核心畫面

Picture the very first big stone going into the ground before a building exists. Someone important sets it in place, the date is cut into its face, and then everything else is built on top of it. It stays at the bottom, out of sight, holding up what came later. Both uses of the phrase can be thought of as that one stone: the thing that went in first, and that the rest now stands on.

可以想成房子還沒蓋起來以前,放進地裡的第一塊大石頭。由一位有身分的人放下,石面上刻著日期,之後所有的東西都疊在它上面更多收起可以想成房子還沒蓋起來以前,放進地裡的第一塊大石頭。由一位有身分的人放下,石面上刻著日期,之後所有的東西都疊在它上面。它留在最底下、看不太到,卻撐著後來的一切。這個詞的兩個用法,都可以想成同一塊石頭:先進場的那一塊,也是別的東西現在站著的那一塊。

Two branches

真的那塊石頭

這一支就是核心畫面本身,摸得到、看得到。

noun · B2

A large stone put in place at the bottom of a new building, usually set there by an important guest as part of a ceremony, and often cut with the date on it.

奠基石

撐住其他東西的根本

把房子換成一個想法、一門學問、一項事業,石頭的位置和工作完全沒變:在最底下撐著。

noun · B2

A fact, idea, rule, or skill that everything else is built on, so that without it the rest could not stand.

基石、根基