核心畫面

Picture a calendar with a window cut into it. Inside the window a rule is lifted and something normally held back is allowed; outside it, the rule is back in place. Open here is not a door swinging — it is open the way a shop is open: permitted, for now. Everything this phrase does comes from that window: something is loose for a while, and everyone knows it.

可以想成一本月曆,上面被剪開一個窗口。窗口裡面,某條規定暫時放開,平常被擋住的事現在被准許了。窗口外面,規定又回去了更多收起可以想成一本月曆,上面被剪開一個窗口。窗口裡面,某條規定暫時放開,平常被擋住的事現在被准許了。窗口外面,規定又回去了。這裡的 open 不是門被推開的那個開。比較像 the shop is open 的那個開:目前是准的。這個詞的三個意思都可以看成從這個窗口長出來——有一段時間,某件事鬆開了,而且大家都知道。

Two branches

法律真的開的那個窗口

這一家就是窗口本身,而且是真的寫在法規裡的。

noun · B2

The part of the year when the law allows people to hunt or fish for a particular animal, bird or fish. Outside those dates it is not allowed.

(獵捕的)開放期

窗口被搬到別的東西上

窗口還在,但被放開的不再是法律,而是大家心裡那條「不好意思做」的線。

noun · C1

If it is open season on someone, a lot of people are attacking them at the same time with words — criticising, blaming or making fun of them — as if nothing were stopping anyone from joining in.

群起圍剿的時候;人人都能開罵