東西本身彎不下去
這一家就是核心畫面本身：你真的伸手去壓，手上真的感覺不到退讓。
adjective · B2
Stiff and hard, so that it keeps its shape and does not bend when you push or pull it.
不能彎曲的；硬的
核心畫面
Think of pressing on something and feeling nothing give. A steel bar, a thick board, a new leather shoe: you push, and it stays exactly where it was. It does not snap and it does not fight back — it simply has no bend in it. Every use of inflexible can be traced back to that feeling of pushing and getting no give, whether what you are pushing against is a material, a , or a person.
inflexible 的核心畫面可以想成：你用力壓下去，手上感覺不到任何一點退讓。鋼條、厚紙板、剛買的皮鞋，你推它，…更多收起
inflexible 的核心畫面可以想成：你用力壓下去，手上感覺不到任何一點退讓。鋼條、厚紙板、剛買的皮鞋，你推它，它就停在原地。它不會斷，也不會反擊，它只是沒有彎的餘地。這個字後面的每一種用法，都可以想成從這個「推下去卻推不動」的手感長出來——差別只在於你推的是材質、是時間表，還是一個人。From the word’s history
Wiktionary records inflexible as a borrowing from Middle French inflexible, from Latin inflexibilis, and points to in- plus flexible. The Latin root flectere means to bend, so the word is literally not able to be bent — which is the core picture itself.
Wiktionary 記載 inflexible 借自中古法文 inflexible，來自拉丁文 īnflexibilis，並指向 in- 加 flexible 的組合。字根 flectere 就是「彎」，所以整個字的字面意思就是「彎不下去」——這正好就是核心畫面本身。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract) entry for inflexible: Borrowed from Middle French inflexible, from Latin īnflexibilis. See also in- + flexible.
Two branches
安排和人一樣彎不下去
把手上的硬搬到看不見的東西上。你帶著一個合理的請求推過去——改個日期、換個做法——結果跟推一根鋼條一樣，完全沒有退讓。因為推不動的代價落在人身上，所以這一家幾乎都帶著抱怨的語氣。這是概念上的延伸，不是說歷史上先有規則才有硬度。
adjective · B2
Impossible or very hard to change, or to fit to a new situation — used about rules, systems, plans, timetables and arrangements.
無法變動的；僵化的