手真的碰到東西
這一支就是核心畫面本身，沒有任何比喻：手放上去、拿起來、翻一翻。
noun · B2
The act of touching, holding, or moving something with your hands.
觸碰、翻動
核心畫面
Picture a hand on something: picking it up, turning it over, feeling how heavy it is, and setting it down again. That hand decides two things at once — whether the thing gets damaged, and whether the job goes well. Every use of handling is really a comment on how that hand is working.
可以想成一隻手放在東西上：拿起來、翻過來、掂一掂重量，再輕輕放回去。這隻手同時決定兩件事——東西會不會壞，還有事情辦…更多收起
可以想成一隻手放在東西上：拿起來、翻過來、掂一掂重量，再輕輕放回去。這隻手同時決定兩件事——東西會不會壞，還有事情辦得順不順。handling 的每一個用法，其實都在評論「這隻手做得怎麼樣」。手上拿的可以是一個箱子、一件麻煩事、一個方向盤，或一枝畫筆。From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces handling to Middle English handlinge and Old English handlung, and analyses it as handle plus -ing. The hand is literally inside the word, which is why every branch still describes something a hand does.
來源把 handling 追到中古英語 handlinge、古英語 handlung，並拆成 handle 加上 -ing。也就是說，「手」本來就在這個字裡面。這正好解釋了為什麼它每一個分支講的都還是「一隻手在做什麼」。
Wiktionary via kaikki snapshot 3f6f69a190036ae4, handling etymology 1: From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung, equivalent to handle + -ing.
Four branches
貨物一路被經手
把那一隻手放大成一整條流程：倉庫、碼頭、輸送帶，每一站都是一次「經手」。動作沒變，只是規模變大了。
noun · B2
The work of moving, storing, buying, and selling goods, including the extra care that heavy or dangerous goods need.
貨物處理
把事情接下來處理
手上拿的東西換成了一件麻煩事。英文把「應付一個狀況」想成「把它接住、拿穩」，所以同樣的字就能講人和事。
noun · B2
The way that someone does a job or deals with a situation, a problem, or a person, and how well or badly that way works.
處理方式
手用得好不好的那種手感
這一支看的不是被碰的東西，而是「手用起來的感覺」：東西聽不聽手的話，手留下了什麼痕跡。
noun · B2
The way a vehicle answers the driver — how easy and steady it feels to steer it, turn it, and stop it.
操控性
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
handlingnoun詞源 1/ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/
- 1
A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
- baggage handling
- the heauens, and your faire handeling / Haue made you maister of the field this day
- 2
obsoleteThe mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
- In mortal terror of people forcing an entrance at such an hour, and in such a manner as to leave no doubt of their purpose, I would have turned to fly when first I heard the noise, only that I feared by any quick motion to catch their attention, as I also ran the danger of doing by opening the door, which was all but closed, and to whose handlings I was unaccustomed.
- 3
artartsThe mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- A miniature[…]remarkable for its brilliancy of colour and charming freedom of handling.
- 4
A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。