核心畫面

One way to hold this word is to take the two little verbs and tie them into a parcel. Meet and greet is what you do; a meet-and-greet is that doing, turned into a thing you can put on a calendar. Picture the first ten seconds of knowing someone: the hello, the handshake, the name said out loud. Normally those seconds are the doorway into something else, a lesson, a show, a holiday. Here somebody has taken just those seconds and built an event around them, so the doorway is the whole room.

一種想法是:把 meet 跟 greet 這兩個小動詞綁成一個包裹。meet and greet 是你做的動作;a 更多收起一種想法是:把 meet 跟 greet 這兩個小動詞綁成一個包裹。meet and greet 是你做的動作;a meet-and-greet 就是把這個動作打包成一件可以寫進行事曆的事。可以想像認識一個人的頭十秒鐘:那聲 hello、那個握手、把名字唸出來的那一下。平常這十秒只是門口,後面才是正事——上課、看表演、出去玩。這個字的特別之處是,有人把這十秒單獨拿出來,替它辦了一場活動,於是門口本身就是整個房間。

From the word’s history

The source entry says the noun is deverbal from meet and greet, that is, the verb phrase used as a noun. Nothing is added to it; the phrase is simply packed up whole.

來源資料說這個名詞是直接從動詞片語 meet and greet 變來的。它沒有加任何字尾,就是整句話原封不動被當成名詞用。

Wiktionary entry for meet-and-greet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1611505811:3225), etymology_text: "Deverbal from meet and greet."

Two branches

為了互相認識而辦的場合

這一家是核心畫面的直接落地:活動的內容就是見面本身,所以動詞常用 hold、go to、join。

noun · B1

An event arranged so that fans can meet a famous person such as a singer, writer or actor, say hello, talk for a short time, and often take a photo or get a signature.

見面會

抵達時有人來接你

一樣是那十秒,但這次有人付錢請別人去做。於是它從活動變成商品,動詞也跟著換成 book、offer、include。

noun · B2

A service that sends someone to wait for a person or group when they arrive at an airport, greet them and help them get where they are going. The person waiting often holds a sign with the traveller's name on it.

接機服務