核心畫面

One way to hold this word is to notice that blood does two jobs in English pictures. It is where a family comes from, and it is where a body's strength comes from. Full-blooded reads the word full against each of those in turn: a line with nothing else mixed into it, and a body with nothing held back in it.

「full-blooded」可以這樣想:在英文的畫面裡,血一直做兩件事。它是家族的來源,也是力氣的來源。full 這更多收起「full-blooded」可以這樣想:在英文的畫面裡,血一直做兩件事。它是家族的來源,也是力氣的來源。full 這個字分別配上這兩件事,就長出兩個意思。一邊是「這條線沒有混進別的東西」,一邊是「力氣一點都沒有留著」。

Two branches

血當作家族的來源

這一支把 full 讀成「完整、沒有混過」。整條家族線從頭到尾都是同一個來源。

adjective · C1

Having all of your family line from one people or one breed, with no ancestors from another; used about people and also about animals.

純血統的

血當作力氣的來源

同一個 full,換一件事來讀:不是「沒混過」,而是「沒留著」。力氣全部拿出來,一點都沒有省下。

adjective · C1

Done with all of someone's energy and nothing held back; complete rather than half-hearted.

全力的、毫無保留的