看得見的血
這一族就是核心畫面本身：血在表面上，沒有被清掉。差別只在血是在真實的東西上，還是在鏡頭前面。
adjective · C1
Covered in blood. This use describes a person, an animal, clothes, hands or a tool with blood on them, and you meet it mostly in stories and older writing.
血跡斑斑的
核心畫面
One picture holds the whole word: blood still on the surface, where anyone can see it. Nothing has been wiped off and nothing has been covered up. From there the word moves twice. It moves onto screens and pages, where a film keeps showing the blood instead of cutting away. And it moves, as a joke, onto stories of any kind that have not been tidied up — the messy parts still in, in full view.
gory 的核心畫面可以想成：血還留在表面上，誰都看得見。沒有擦掉，也沒有遮住。從這裡它往兩個方向走。一邊走到螢幕和…更多收起
gory 的核心畫面可以想成：血還留在表面上，誰都看得見。沒有擦掉，也沒有遮住。從這裡它往兩個方向走。一邊走到螢幕和書頁上：片子把鏡頭停在血上，不移開。另一邊是開玩笑的用法：一件事沒有被整理過，連難堪、瑣碎的部分都還攤在那裡。From the word’s history
Gory is gore + -y. The older word gor meant filth or mud in Old English, and Middle English gorry meant 'muddy', before the family settled on blood — so the word has long been about something unpleasant left clinging to a surface.
gory 是 gore 加上 -y。更早的 gor 在古英文裡指髒污、爛泥，中古英文的 gorry 是「泥濘的」，後來這一族才固定在「血」上。所以這個字一直在講「有東西黏在表面上沒清掉」。
Wiktionary entry 'gory' (gore + -y; Middle English gorry 'muddy'; Old English gor 'dirt, dung'), supplied in this evidence packet as kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:827115910.
Two branches
連難堪的部分也攤開
核心畫面裡最關鍵的一點，是「沒有清掉、全都看得見」。把這一點從血移到「講一件事」上，就長出這一族：說故事的時候，連平常會略過的部分都留著。
adjective · B2
Used in the phrase '(all) the gory details' to mean every small detail of what happened, especially the private, messy or embarrassing parts. It is usually said playfully, and usually about something with no blood in it at all.
（全部的）細節