核心畫面

Picture glass being rubbed away. The word ground is not the earth here; it is what grind leaves behind, so both uses of the term start with the same action and differ only in how far it went. Stop at the surface and you get a that has lost its smooth face: light still comes through, the view does not. Keep going, and there is no left at all, only fine grains in a bag. One question tells you which one a sentence means - was the glass rubbed, or was it rubbed away?

可以想成玻璃正在被磨。這裡的 ground 不是「地面」,而是 grind(磨)留下的形式。所以這個詞的兩個用法從同更多收起可以想成玻璃正在被磨。這裡的 ground 不是「地面」,而是 grind(磨)留下的形式。所以這個詞的兩個用法從同一個動作開始,差別只在磨到哪裡為止。停在表面,你得到一片失去光滑臉孔的玻璃:光還是過得來,視線過不來。一直磨下去,就沒有「一片」了,只剩袋子裡細細的顆粒。要分辨句子在講哪一個,問一句就好——玻璃是被磨過,還是被磨掉了?

One branch

被磨過的玻璃:磨表面,或磨成粉

同一個動作、兩種程度。兩個意思都由 grind 這個動詞長出來,句子裡怎麼數它,就看得出是哪一個。

noun · B2

Glass with a surface that has been rubbed rough, so that light still comes through it but you cannot see clearly through it.

毛玻璃/磨砂玻璃