核心畫面

Hold a sheet of glass in your mind: flat, hard, bright, and holding a reflection you can look into. Every use of glassy borrows something from that sheet. Water borrows the flatness and the reflection. Eyes borrow the shine with nothing behind it. Buildings stop borrowing and just use the glass itself.

可以想成一片玻璃:平、硬、會反光,而且看得到東西照在上面。glassy 的每個用法都從這片玻璃借了一點東西。水面借的更多收起可以想成一片玻璃:平、硬、會反光,而且看得到東西照在上面。glassy 的每個用法都從這片玻璃借了一點東西。水面借的是「平」和「照得出東西」。眼睛借的是「只有反光、裡面沒有內容」。大樓則不是借,而是真的就用玻璃蓋起來。

From the word’s history

glassy is glass plus -y ('like ...'), recorded in Middle English as glasy; Dutch glazig and German glasig are built the same way.

glassy 是 glass(玻璃)加上 -y(像…一樣的),中古英文寫成 glasy。荷蘭文的 glazig、德文的 glasig 也是同樣的造法,都是「像玻璃的」。

Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1117069498): "From Middle English glasy, equivalent to glass + -y."

From the picture

眼睛像玻璃

把玻璃的兩個特點搬到眼神上:不會動,而且只剩反光、沒有內容。

adjective · B2

Of eyes: open and shining but not really looking at anything — still, and showing no feeling or understanding.

呆滯的

玻璃做的

這一組不是「像玻璃」,而是真的跟玻璃這個材料有關:從比喻退回到實物。

adjective · C1

Having a lot of glass in it — used about buildings and designs that use large areas of glass instead of solid walls.

大量用玻璃的

Also in this word

adjective · B2

Smooth, flat and shining the way glass looks — used most often about water with no waves on it, and about polished or wet surfaces that give back the light.

光滑如鏡的