從鍋柄到地圖
這一組的兩個意思共用同一個形狀:大的一塊,旁邊伸出細的一條。差別只在你看的是廚房裡的鍋子,還是攤開來的地圖。
noun · B1
The handle of a pan — the long part at the side of a cooking pan that you hold to lift it or move it.
鍋柄
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 鍋柄 · 在街頭向路人要錢
Look down at a cooking pan: a wide round body, and one thin straight piece running out from its side. That thin piece is the handle. English keeps that kitchen shape and lends it to anything built the same way — one big area with a long narrow strip running out of it. On a map of the United States, that strip is a piece of land, and it gets the same name.
The packet's Wiktionary entry gives the noun's origin as pan + handle, which is the shape the map use still rests on.
資料裡的 Wiktionary 條目把這個名詞的來源記成 pan + handle,也就是「鍋子的把手」。這條線索直接解釋了地圖上的用法:地圖那個意思到今天靠的還是同一個形狀。
Wiktionary extract supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1262779194:10664), etymology 1: 'From pan + handle.'
One branch
從鍋柄到地圖
這一組的兩個意思共用同一個形狀:大的一塊,旁邊伸出細的一條。差別只在你看的是廚房裡的鍋子,還是攤開來的地圖。
noun · B1
The handle of a pan — the long part at the side of a cooking pan that you hold to lift it or move it.
鍋柄
A second word, same spelling
One person staying in a busy public place — a station door, a bus stop, a street corner — asking the people who walk past for small money, a few coins at a time.
The packet records this verb as a probable back-formation from panhandler, the name for the person. Where the pan in that older word came from is not stated in the packet, so no story about holding out a pan is claimed here.
資料把這個動詞記成「可能是從 panhandler 反推出來的」:先有 panhandler(在街頭要錢的人)這個名稱,動詞才跟著出現。至於 panhandler 裡的 pan 是哪裡來的,手上的資料沒有交代,所以這裡不講「拿著鍋子要錢」那種故事。也因為這樣,它跟地形的 panhandle 被分開當成兩條路來處理。
Wiktionary extract supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1262789858:6196), etymology 2: 'Probable back-formation from panhandler.'