核心畫面

Think of the sound people make when they hum with no words — la la la — and then turn that sound into a place on a map. It is soft, pleasant, and nothing in it is solid. Whatever is said to be in that place has floated away from the hard world: a mind that has stopped listening, a plan that no real numbers support, even a whole city that is felt to be made of film and sunshine.

可以想成有人不知道歌詞、隨口哼出的那串聲音——la la la——然後把那串聲音變成地圖上的一個地方。那裡輕飄飄的,更多收起可以想成有人不知道歌詞、隨口哼出的那串聲音——la la la——然後把那串聲音變成地圖上的一個地方。那裡輕飄飄的,很舒服,沒有一樣東西是硬的。被說成在那個地方的東西,都已經離開了現實:可能是一顆不再聽人講話的腦袋,可能是一個算都算不出來的計畫,甚至可能是一整座城市,被覺得是用陽光和電影做成的。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records one entry as la (a syllable used in singing) + land, and a second entry as a blend of LA (Los Angeles) with that same dreamland word.

Wiktionary 記了兩條:一條是 la(唱歌時用的音節)加上 land;另一條是把 LA(洛杉磯)跟前面那個幻想之地混成一個字。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:747346064 and :747350413)

Two branches

心思飄走的地方

最貼近那個哼歌變成的地方:被說在那裡的,是人的注意力或人的想法。

noun · C1

Used in 'in la-la land' to say that someone's ideas are far away from what is really happening, as if they were living in a made-up world instead of this one.

脫離現實

洛杉磯的戲稱

這一支不是從幻想之地長出來的比喻,而是另一條造字路線;但因為混進去的正是那個幻想之地,它也就順便帶走了「不太真實」的味道。

noun · C1

A joking nickname for Los Angeles, the American city where films are made, used to suggest that life there is not quite real and the people there are a little crazy.

洛杉磯(戲稱)