核心畫面

Picture the little label sewn inside a cheap hat: one size fits all. Nobody measured your head. The shop made one thing and decided it would do for everybody, tall or small. Sometimes that is fine, and sometimes you get a hat that sits on your ears — and both of those outcomes are already sitting inside this phrase.

可以想成便宜帽子裡面縫的那張小標籤:one size fits all。沒有人量過你的頭。店家只做了一種,然後決定它更多收起可以想成便宜帽子裡面縫的那張小標籤:one size fits all。沒有人量過你的頭。店家只做了一種,然後決定它對誰都行。有時候這樣真的沒問題。有時候戴起來就一路滑到耳朵上。這個詞的兩個意思,其實都已經藏在這張標籤裡了。

Two branches

真的在講衣服

核心畫面本身:那張標籤,還貼在衣服上。

adjective · B1

Made in a single size that is meant to be comfortable on people of many different body sizes.

單一尺寸通用的

標籤貼到制度上

把那張標籤從衣服上撕下來,貼到一套辦法、一條規定、一個計畫上——連同它本來就有的那個問題一起帶過去。

adjective · B2

Used about a plan, rule, method or attitude that is made to suit everyone or every situation — often said to complain that, because it treats all cases the same, it does not really work well for any of them.

一體適用的