核心畫面

Picture the two plain words first: a belt for your life. Something filled with air or foam, made to sit between a person and the water so the water cannot pull them down. The name says nothing about the shape — only about the job — and that is why the same name covers a belt round a waist in one country and a ring thrown from a boat in another.

可以先把兩個字分開看:life(命)+ belt(帶子),一條保命用的帶子。畫面上是一個裝了空氣或泡棉的東西,卡在人更多收起可以先把兩個字分開看:life(命)+ belt(帶子),一條保命用的帶子。畫面上是一個裝了空氣或泡棉的東西,卡在人跟水之間,讓水沒辦法把人拉下去。這個名字只講它做的事,完全沒講它長什麼樣子。所以同一個名字,在一個地方指綁在腰上的帶子,在另一個地方指從船上丟出去的圈,兩個都說得通。