Picture someone counting out a job in five-cent and ten-cent coins. Nothing here is a . Every amount is small enough to shrug at, and that small scale is what the word is really about. Used of a thing, it says the thing is tiny. Used of what a person does, it says they are working in coins — either handing them out one at a time, or taking them from you one at a time.

可以想成有人拿五分和一角的銅板在算一件事。這裡沒有鈔票,每一筆都小到你懶得計較,而這個「小」才是這個詞真正在講的東西。拿來形容一樣東西,意思是它小到不值一提。拿來形容一個人的作為,意思是他在用銅板辦事——不是一枚一枚地給出去,就是一枚一枚地從你身上拿走。

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