比賽場上的速度與名次
這一族保留了字面的畫面:真的有一場比賽,真的有人在前面。
noun · C1
In a race, the runner or rider who goes at the front early on so that the others have a steady speed to follow. Another word for this is pacemaker.
配速員
Picture a line of runners, and one of them out in front. The speed they choose becomes everyone's speed — the people behind stop deciding for themselves and work from that. Every use of this word keeps that shape: one at the front, a field behind, and a speed the front one is setting.
From pace + setter: the one who sets the pace.
字源資料說它由 pace(速度、步調)加 setter(定下某件事的人)組成,字面就是「定速度的人」。核心畫面等於字面,其他意思都是把「速度」換成別的東西。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract) 'pacesetter': "From pace + setter."
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比賽場上的速度與名次
這一族保留了字面的畫面:真的有一場比賽,真的有人在前面。
noun · C1
In a race, the runner or rider who goes at the front early on so that the others have a steady speed to follow. Another word for this is pacemaker.
配速員
領域裡的標竿
把跑道換成一個行業。跑在前面的人定的不再是速度或分數,而是做事的方式:你先做了,別人跟著做。
noun · C1
A person or company that others in the same field treat as the leader, because what they do sets the standard and the speed everyone else tries to match.
標竿、領頭羊