核心畫面

You can think of an ice pack as a quantity of ice held together as one body. The word pack is doing the same work every time: it gathers the ice so it can be treated as a single thing. A small one sits in your hand and cools a sore ankle. A flat sealed one lies in a cool bag and keeps lunch cold. A huge one floats on the sea and stretches past the horizon. Hand-sized or ocean-sized, it is still one mass of cold that holds together.

可以想成 ice pack 就是「被聚在一起的一團冰」。pack 每次都在做同一件事:把冰攏成一個可以當成單一物件來更多收起可以想成 ice pack 就是「被聚在一起的一團冰」。pack 每次都在做同一件事:把冰攏成一個可以當成單一物件來看的東西。小的那一團握在手裡,拿來冰扭到的腳踝。扁扁封好的那一塊躺在保冷袋裡,讓便當一路保持冰涼。最大的那一片浮在海上,一路延伸到看不見的地方。不論是手掌大小還是海洋大小,它都還是一整團連在一起的冷。

Two branches

拿得動的一包冷

這一組是「一團冰」縮到人手可以處理的大小:包起來、拿得動、放得進袋子。

noun · B1

A bag or soft pad filled with ice or something frozen, which you hold against a hurt or painful part of the body to keep it cold.

冰敷袋

海上擠成一片的冰

同一個「聚成一團」的畫面放大到海洋尺度:聚在一起的不是幾塊冰塊,而是無數碎冰。

noun · B2

A very large area of broken ice floating on the sea, made of many pieces of ice pushed close together. It is also called pack ice.

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