核心畫面

Picture the road people travel every day. Whatever sits on that road is easy to reach and easy to meet: the shop by the bus stop, the music everyone already knows. Out-of-the-way is everything off to the side of that road. The village the bus does not pass. The question nobody thought to ask. Nothing is wrong with what is off to the side. It is simply not where people usually go, so you need an extra turn to get to it.

可以想成一條大家每天都在走的路。路上的東西,你很容易碰到、很容易到。像公車站旁邊那家店,像人人都會唱的歌。out-o更多收起可以想成一條大家每天都在走的路。路上的東西,你很容易碰到、很容易到。像公車站旁邊那家店,像人人都會唱的歌。out-of-the-way 指的就是那條路旁邊、沒人特地繞過去的地方。可能是公車不經過的村子。也可能是沒有人想到要問的問題。路邊的東西沒有不好。它只是不在大家會經過的地方,所以你得多轉一個彎才到得了。

Two branches

地方偏僻,人少難到

這一支就是核心畫面的字面版本:那條路是真的路,偏的地方也是真的地方。

adjective · B2

Far from towns, main roads and the places people usually go, so few people are there and it takes extra effort to reach.

偏僻的

口味或事情不尋常(英式)

一種想法是:把「不在大家常走的路上」從地圖搬到想法上。位置偏,就成了口味偏、角度偏。這是幫助記憶的連結,不是在說歷史來源。

adjective · C1

Not ordinary; a little unusual or strange, in a way that stands out from what people normally do, like or expect. The source marks this use as British English.

不尋常的