看得見的邊：垂下來的那圈
字面的一支：真的看得到、摸得到的一排線或一排頭髮，長在某個東西的邊上。
fringe, decorative trim · noun · C2
A row of hanging threads used as decoration on the edge of a curtain, a piece of clothing, or something similar.
流蘇
核心畫面
A picture to hold: the loose threads hanging along the edge of a cloth. They are part of the cloth and yet they are not the cloth — they sit at the boundary, at the outer line where the thing stops. Everything else fringe means grows out of that edge.
「布邊垂下來的那排線」：它們屬於這塊布，卻又不是布的本體——它們待在邊界上，在東西結束的那條外緣。fringe 之後…更多收起
「布邊垂下來的那排線」：它們屬於這塊布，卻又不是布的本體——它們待在邊界上，在東西結束的那條外緣。fringe 之後所有的意思，都是從這條「邊」長出來的：邊上的頭髮、邊上的人、邊上的活動。抓住「邊緣」這兩個字，這個詞就通了。From the word’s history
From Old French frenge, ultimately from Latin fimbriae 'threads, fringe' — the decorative threads at a cloth's border. The modern edge senses are that border, generalised.
從古法文 frenge 上溯到拉丁文 fimbriae（線、穗、布邊的流蘇）。也就是說，這個字打從一開始講的就是那圈裝飾用的垂線；後來的抽象用法只是把「布的邊」換成「群體的邊」「地方的邊」，那條線本身沒變。
Wiktionary（fringe 詞源條目，見本題提供的 attested origins）
Three branches
位置的邊：不在中心的地方
把布的邊放大成空間的邊：離中心最遠的那一圈，還屬於它，但已經在外側。
fringe, outer edge · noun · C2
The part of a place, a crowd, or an area that is farthest from the middle.
外圍
身分與地位的邊：不在主流裡
同一條邊，但量的不是距離而是接納度：屬不屬於核心、被不被當一回事。
fringe, on the margins of a group · noun · C2
The position of people who do not fully belong to a group that shares a job or activity, or who are not fully accepted by that group.
邊緣
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。
fringenoun/fɹɪnd͡ʒ/
- 1
A decorative border.
- the fringe of a picture
- The walls were hung with blue silk, edged with silver fringe; and the closely-drawn blue velvet curtains swept the ground.
- 2
A decorative border.
- He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him.
- 3
A marginal or peripheral part.
- the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
- Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.
- 4
A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- About an hour later, the two were sitting at a comparatively isolated table in a restaurant called Sickler’s, downtown, a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college—the same students, more or less, who, had they been Yale or Harvard men, might rather too casually have steered their dates away from Mory’s or Cronin’s.
- 5
A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- a fringe group of the party
- 6
The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- He lives on the fringe of London.
- Moreover, although a number of lines penetrate to the fringes of the English Lake District, this is the only one which actually passes through it.
- 7
The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.
- 8
Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
- In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
- 9
natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- interference fringe
- 10
Non-mainstream theatre.
- The Fringe
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11
biologybotanynatural-sciencesThe peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- 12
golfhobbieslifestyleThe area around the green.
- 13
broadcastingmediaradioA daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
fringeadj/fɹɪnd͡ʒ/
- 1
Outside the mainstream.
- So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe.
fringeverb/fɹɪnd͡ʒ/
- 1
To decorate with fringe.
- [Y]onder cloud / That rises upward always higher, / And onward drags a labouring breast, / And topples round the dreary west, / A looming bastion fringed with fire.
- Presently she saw the King's palace. Pillars of ice held up the roof fringed with icicles, which would have sparkled splendidly if there had been any sun.
- 2
To serve as a fringe; to border.
- Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.
- The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.
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。