真的把手伸進去的那個遊戲
字面的一層，畫面就是那個桶子。
noun · B2
A game in which small prizes are covered up and mixed together in a box or barrel, and you push your hand in and pull one out without looking, so you cannot choose what you get.
摸彩箱（遊戲）
核心畫面
Picture a barrel at a school fair, filled with wrapped parcels all about the same size. You pay, you put your hand in, and you are not allowed to look. Your hand closes on something and that is yours. The whole word lives in that one second: you reached in, you could not choose, and now you find out.
可以想成園遊會上的一個大桶子，裡面塞滿包起來、大小差不多的小禮物。你付了錢，把手伸進去，而且不准看。手抓到什麼，那就…更多收起
可以想成園遊會上的一個大桶子，裡面塞滿包起來、大小差不多的小禮物。你付了錢，把手伸進去，而且不准看。手抓到什麼，那就是你的。整個詞的畫面就停在那一秒：手伸進去了，選不了，接著才知道拿到什麼。Two branches
拿這個畫面來講人生的事
把桶子的畫面搬到生活裡：看不到選項、也選不了，結果就只能等。這是比喻上的借用，不是這個詞在歷史上變了意思。
noun · B2
A situation in which what you end up with depends completely on chance, because you have no way of choosing and no way of knowing beforehand.
全憑運氣的事