水邊的那株植物
這一支就是核心畫面本身：站在淺水裡的那株高草。
noun · C1
A tall water plant with a thick stem and a spray of thin leaves at the top, which grows in shallow water and wet ground, especially along the Nile in Egypt; it is also called paper reed.
莎草
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a tall plant standing in the shallow water at the edge of the Nile, with a thick stem and a spray of thin leaves on top. Cut that stem into strips, lay the strips across each other, press them and dry them, and you have a light brown sheet you can write on. Everything the word means seems to travel along that one stem — first the plant, then the material made from it, then the written documents that survive on that material.
papyrus 可以想成尼羅河邊一片高高的水草。莖是粗的，站在淺水裡，頂上散開一叢細葉。古埃及人把這種莖切成薄片，交…更多收起
papyrus 可以想成尼羅河邊一片高高的水草。莖是粗的，站在淺水裡，頂上散開一叢細葉。古埃及人把這種莖切成薄片，交錯疊好再壓平晾乾，就得到一張淺褐色、可以寫字的薄片。這個字的幾個意思，看起來就是順著同一根莖走下來的：先是那株植物，再是用它做出來的材料，最後是寫在那材料上、今天還讀得到的文件。From the word’s history
Recorded in Middle English as papirus, borrowed from Latin papȳrus, itself from Ancient Greek πάπυρος, whose earlier origin is unknown. The word is first the plant's name, and the material takes the plant's name with it.
中古英文作 papirus，借自拉丁文 papȳrus，再往前是古希臘文 πάπυρος；更早的來源不明。這個字最先是植物的名字，材料則是連著植物的名字一起被帶過去的。
Wiktionary entry 'papyrus' (noun), supplied in this packet as kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:354001051
Two branches
莖做成的材料，以及寫在上面的東西
把核心畫面裡那根莖切開、壓平、晾乾，植物就變成了可以寫字的薄片；名字沒有換，所以材料和文件都跟著叫 papyrus。
noun · C1
A paper-like material made from the stem of the papyrus plant, used for writing in ancient Egypt and around the Mediterranean; also one sheet or piece of this material.
莎草紙