核心畫面

Picture an open square on market day. Stalls stand in a row, nobody is hidden, and a customer walks along the row comparing one stall with the next before choosing. Every use of this word keeps that row: the square itself, the whole world of companies competing side by side, a screen where many sellers are listed together, and even a page where opinions stand next to each other waiting to be picked.

可以想成市集日的一塊廣場。攤子排成一排,誰也沒有藏起來,客人沿著這排走,一攤比過一攤,最後才挑一個。這個字的每個用法更多收起可以想成市集日的一塊廣場。攤子排成一排,誰也沒有藏起來,客人沿著這排走,一攤比過一攤,最後才挑一個。這個字的每個用法都留著那一排:真的廣場、一家家公司並排較勁的整個買賣環境、螢幕上一個挨一個的賣家清單,甚至是各種意見並排等著被選的版面。

From the word’s history

The supplied Wiktionary entry records the word as market plus place — literally the place where buying and selling happens, which is exactly the square in the core image.

packet 裡的 Wiktionary 記錄寫著:這個字就是 market(買賣)加 place(地方)。字面上的「買賣的地方」,正好就是核心畫面裡那塊廣場。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:999727985): From market + place.

Two branches

擺得下攤子的場地

這一組是有具體場地的用法:一塊地方,賣家在裡面各佔一個位子。差別只在這塊地方是磚地還是螢幕。

noun · B1

An open space in a town, usually a square, where people put up stalls and sell food and goods on certain days.

市集廣場;市場(實體場地)

並排較勁的那個場子

這一組把場地抽掉,只留下「一排擺開、互相比較」這件事。沒有地址,但那排攤子還在,只是攤主換成了公司,或換成了各種說法。

noun · B2

The whole area of buying and selling in which companies offer their goods and compete with each other — the trading world in general, not one shop and not one town square.

市場(買賣與競爭的大環境)