食物本身：熱的煎餅
核心畫面最字面的一層，指的就是盤子上那片餅。
noun · B1
A pancake: a flat round cake made from a thin mixture of flour, egg and milk, cooked quickly in a hot pan and eaten warm, usually at breakfast.
美式煎餅（鬆餅）
核心畫面
A flat cake lifted straight off the hot pan, still steaming. Two things are true of it at once: it is food, and it will not stay on the plate for long, because people are already waiting for it. English keeps the first fact as the name of the food, and borrows the second one to talk about anything that is being bought too fast to keep up with.
可以想成剛從熱鍋上鏟起來的一片餅，還冒著煙。這個畫面同時有兩件事：它是食物，而且它不會在盤子上待太久，因為旁邊的人早…更多收起
可以想成剛從熱鍋上鏟起來的一片餅，還冒著煙。這個畫面同時有兩件事：它是食物，而且它不會在盤子上待太久，因為旁邊的人早就在等了。英文把第一件事留下來當這種食物的名字，再把第二件事借出去——形容一樣東西賣得快到補不上貨。要注意的是，第二個意思只活在 selling／going like hot cakes 這個說法裡。Two branches
一端出來就被拿光：熱賣
抓住核心畫面的第二件事——那片餅留不住。這是概念上的比喻連結，不是在主張歷史來源。
noun · B2
If something is selling like hot cakes, or going like hot cakes, people are buying it very quickly and in large numbers, because it is very popular.
熱賣