核心畫面

Picture a whole romance lifted out and set on the table as one object with a start, a middle and an end, so people can point at it and talk about it. The heat inside it is what the words carry. Put a person on the far side and it is a romance. Put a thing on the far side - cars, cameras, night markets - and the same heat is being claimed for a thing.

可以想成把一整段戀愛端起來,當成一件東西擺在桌上。它有開頭、有過程、有結尾,所以別人可以指著它談論。裡面那股熱度,就更多收起可以想成把一整段戀愛端起來,當成一件東西擺在桌上。它有開頭、有過程、有結尾,所以別人可以指著它談論。裡面那股熱度,就是這兩個字帶的東西。另一邊放一個人,它就是一段戀情。另一邊換成一樣東西——汽車、相機、夜市——那股熱度就被借去形容人對物的著迷。

Two branches

另一邊是人

這是核心圖本身:桌上那段戀愛,兩頭都是人。

noun · B2

A romantic and sexual relationship between two people, usually two people who are not married to each other.

戀情(多半指婚姻之外的)

另一邊是東西

同一段戀愛擺在桌上,只是對面坐的不是人,而是一樣東西。

noun · B2

A long and strong enjoyment of something - a thing, a place or an activity - that a person, or a whole country, keeps coming back to.

熱愛、著迷(對某樣東西)