Think of a child whose body is getting taller faster than it can settle into. At night the arms and legs , and yet nothing is broken and nothing is ill: the simply comes with growing. English keeps that picture and lends it out. Whenever something is getting bigger fast and hurting a little on the way, the trouble can be called its growing pains, with the quiet promise that it will pass.

可以想成一個正在抽高的身體。它長得比自己能適應的還快,到了晚上手腳就會痠。沒有受傷,也沒有生病,這個痛就只是「長大」附帶的。英文把這個畫面借了出去。一個人在長大、一間公司在變大,路上出現的麻煩,都可以叫 growing pains。這個詞也順便帶著一個語氣:痛歸痛,會過去。

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