核心畫面

Picture a gap left in a join. The two things are connected — a towel round a neck, a screw in a hole — but not pressed together, so there is still room to move. Loosely is that gap turned into a way of doing something. The gap can be physical, or it can sit between a film and the true story, between a group and its rules, or between a speaker and the word they just chose.

可以想成兩樣東西中間留了一道空隙。它們有接上——毛巾繞著脖子、螺絲插在洞裡——但沒有壓緊,所以還晃得動。loosel更多收起可以想成兩樣東西中間留了一道空隙。它們有接上——毛巾繞著脖子、螺絲插在洞裡——但沒有壓緊,所以還晃得動。loosely 就是把這道空隙拿來形容「怎麼做」。空隙可以在實體上,也可以在電影和真實故事之間、在團體和它的規矩之間,甚至在說話的人和他剛剛挑的那個字之間。

From the word’s history

The packet's source entry derives it from Middle English lously, equivalent to loose + -ly — the adjective for the gap, turned into an adverb for acting with a gap left in.

packet 裡的來源說它來自中古英文 lously,等於 loose + -ly。也就是把「鬆」這個形容詞,變成形容動作的副詞:做的時候留著那道空隙。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1196270425): 'From Middle English lously; equivalent to loose + -ly.'

Three branches

實際上鬆鬆的

最接近字面的空隙:手可以摸到、眼睛可以看到。

r · B1

In a way that is not tight or firm, so that the thing still has room to move, slip, hang down or come off.

鬆鬆地

對得不緊、不精確

同樣一道空隙,這次留在「兩件事對得準不準」之間。

r · B2

In a way that is not exact — keeping the general shape or idea of something but changing, dropping or guessing at many of the details.

大致上/不精確地

管得不緊、組織鬆散

空隙這次留在人跟人、單位跟單位之間:有連著,但沒綁死。

r · B2

In a way that is not tightly controlled or organized, so that the parts of a group belong together but each one still works largely on its own.

鬆散地