核心畫面

Hold the picture of the pan itself: flat metal, low sides, a long handle, sitting straight on the heat. Food in it has nowhere to hide — it touches the hot surface and browns fast, and one shake of the handle turns it over. Everything on this page comes from that one hot, shallow, open pan, including the saying, where jumping out of it only drops you into the flames underneath.

先把那只鍋放在眼前:平平的鐵、很淺的邊、一根長柄,直接坐在爐火上。食物在裡面沒有地方躲,一下去就貼著燙鍋底,很快上色更多收起先把那只鍋放在眼前:平平的鐵、很淺的邊、一根長柄,直接坐在爐火上。食物在裡面沒有地方躲,一下去就貼著燙鍋底,很快上色,手腕一甩就翻面。這一頁的東西,都可以想成從這只「又燙又淺又開口」的鍋長出來——連那句俗話也是:從鍋裡跳出來,接住你的是底下的火。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records frying pan as coming from Middle English fryyng panne, which is simply frying + pan — the pan you fry in. The name has stayed transparent, which is why the object and the picture match so exactly.

Wiktionary 記錄 frying pan 來自中古英文的 fryyng panne,等於 frying(煎)加上 pan(鍋),就是「煎東西的那只鍋」。名字到現在還是拆得開,所以字和畫面幾乎完全對得上。

Wiktionary entry 'frying pan' (noun), etymology_text in packet: 'From Middle English fryyng panne; equivalent to frying + pan.' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:901661558)

Two branches

鍋子本身

這一組就是核心:那只淺淺的、有長柄的煎鍋。

noun · B1

A round, shallow pan with a long handle, used for cooking food in hot oil or fat over heat.

平底鍋

從鍋子長出來的一句話

把核心畫面往下延伸一格:鍋子底下還有火。逃離燙的地方不一定就安全,這是整句話的力量來源。

noun · B1

Used to say that someone has got out of a bad situation and ended up in one that is even worse.

才出虎口又入火坑