核心畫面

An eye that is sharp up close and loses everything further away. The page in your hands is clear; the sign across the street is a grey smudge. Nothing is wrong with the seeing itself — it simply stops at a certain distance. Every other use of myopic is that same eye pointed at something other than a street: at time, so next year is the smudge, or at the world, so everything outside your own corner is.

可以想成一隻眼睛:近的地方清清楚楚,稍微遠一點就整片糊掉。手上的書沒問題,對街的招牌卻只剩一團灰影。它並不是看不見,更多收起可以想成一隻眼睛:近的地方清清楚楚,稍微遠一點就整片糊掉。手上的書沒問題,對街的招牌卻只剩一團灰影。它並不是看不見,只是看到某個距離就停住了。myopic 其他的用法,都是把這同一隻眼睛轉向別的東西——轉向時間,糊掉的就是明年;轉向世界,糊掉的就是自己那一塊以外的地方。

From the word’s history

From myopia (short sight) plus the adjective ending -ic.

來自 myopia(近視)加上形容詞字尾 -ic,所以這個字最原本就是在講眼睛。

Wiktionary entry for myopic (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:600360479), etymology section supplied in the evidence packet

Three branches

眼睛看不遠

這一族就是核心畫面本身,還留在眼睛上。

adjective · C1

Not able to see things clearly unless they are close to you, so distant things look blurred.

近視的

時間上的看不遠

把那隻眼睛轉向時間:看得到這個月,看不到明年,所以未來就是那團灰影。

adjective · C1

Not willing or not able to think about what will happen later, especially about the results of what is being done now. The word shows that you think this is a fault.

短視的

視野上的看不寬

同一隻眼睛轉向世界:自己那一小塊很清楚,外面的一切都糊成一片。

adjective · C1

Only able or willing to look at your own small part of something, so the wider picture is missed.

眼界狹隘的