核心畫面

Picture a group with one person standing out in front of it. Everyone else — the other players, the drummer and the bass, the people who make the decisions — is somewhere behind. The crowd looks at the one at the front, the ball goes to him, the questions go to him. That is all the two words say: this is the one at the front. What sits behind him is what changes from sense to sense.

可以想成一群人,其中一個站到最前面。其他人都在他後面——其他球員、鼓手和貝斯手、真正做決定的人。觀眾看的是最前面那一更多收起可以想成一群人,其中一個站到最前面。其他人都在他後面——其他球員、鼓手和貝斯手、真正做決定的人。觀眾看的是最前面那一個。球傳給他。問題也問他。這兩個字說的就只是這件事:站在前面的那個。真正會變的是他後面站著什麼人。三個意思的差別,都在後面那一層。

Three branches

舞台最前面的人

這一家的「前面」是真的位置,所以畫面最實,其他意思都可以從這裡看懂。

noun · B2

The person who leads a band on stage and is usually the singer — the one standing at the front, whom the audience watches and who talks to the crowd between songs.

(樂團的)主唱、台前的靈魂人物

替別人站在前面的人

位置沒變,變的是後面那些人不想被看見,所以 front 從「舞台前緣」變成「門面」。

noun · C1

A person who speaks and appears in public for a group, while the people who really run it stay out of sight. The group often has something it wants to hide.

檯面上的代表人;門面人物

陣型最前面的人

一樣是最前面那一個,只是這次的「後面」是中場和後衛,前面只剩對手的球門。

noun · C1

In football (soccer), a player who plays nearest the other team's goal, whose main job is to score; a striker.

(足球)前鋒