核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a line that fails to connect. Put a fact next to the question in hand and look for the thread between them; if there is no thread, the fact cannot pull anything, so it carries no weight here. That is irrelevance — not being wrong, just not being joined on.

可以想成:一條沒接上的線。把一件事放到眼前的問題旁邊,看看兩者之間有沒有一條線;如果沒有,那件事就拉不動任何結論,在更多收起可以想成:一條沒接上的線。把一件事放到眼前的問題旁邊,看看兩者之間有沒有一條線;如果沒有,那件事就拉不動任何結論,在這裡也就沒有份量。這就是 irrelevance——重點不是「錯」,而是「接不上」。真的事也可能接不上。線一旦沒接上,剩下的問題只是:我們是在說那個「接不上的狀態」,還是在說那個「接不上的東西」。

One branch

接不上的狀態,和接不上的那個東西

兩個意思共用同一個畫面,差別只在你指的是那條斷掉的連結,還是線那頭的東西。

noun · C1

The fact that something has no connection with the subject you are talking about or the situation you are dealing with, and so does not matter there. Used without a or an, and often as 'the irrelevance of something'.

無關;不重要