水上的那艘船
核心畫面的原型,其他幾支都是從這艘船的形狀借過去的。
noun · B1
A long narrow boat with a flat bottom and a tall curved point at each end, used on the canals of Venice in Italy. One person stands at the back and moves it along with a single long oar.
貢多拉(威尼斯小船)
One way to hold this word: a long narrow open container that carries people or goods along one set path. The Venice boat is that shape in water - thin enough for a tight canal, open at the top, both ends lifted. Lift the same shape into the air on ropes or a cable and you get the balloon basket and the mountain cabin; set it on rails or on a shop floor and you get the open wagon and the free-standing shelf unit.
Borrowed from Italian gondola, from the Venetan form gondola; the source also suggests a possible but uncertain link to Byzantine Greek kontoura, a kind of small ship.
從義大利文 gondola 借來,更早是威尼斯方言的 góndoƚa。資料另外提到一條「可能」的線:拜占庭希臘文 κοντοῦρα(一種小船),但這條線本身就標著不確定。
Wiktionary etymology in the supplied packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:723422689)
Three branches
水上的那艘船
核心畫面的原型,其他幾支都是從這艘船的形狀借過去的。
noun · B1
A long narrow boat with a flat bottom and a tall curved point at each end, used on the canals of Venice in Italy. One person stands at the back and moves it along with a single long oar.
貢多拉(威尼斯小船)
吊在半空中的艙
同一個「載人的容器」被吊了起來:上面換成氣球或鋼索負責浮、負責拉,底下那個裝人的部分仍然叫 gondola。
noun · B2
The basket or enclosed car that hangs under a hot-air balloon or an airship, where the pilot and the passengers stand or sit.
吊艙/吊籃
地面上的長形敞開容器
這一支留住的是形狀而不是「吊」:細長、上面敞開、東西從上方進出,跟那艘船的船身一樣。
noun · C1
An open railway wagon with low sides and no roof, used in the United States to carry heavy loads such as crushed rock, scrap metal or steel.
敞車(無頂的貨車廂)