關豬的地方,和像那樣的地方
這一組就是核心畫面本身,再加上把畫面借去形容別的地方。中間只隔了一步:從真的養豬的地方,到「亂得像養豬的地方」。
noun · B1
A small fenced area or simple building on a farm where pigs are kept.
豬圈
Hold the two halves of the word and the picture builds itself: pig, plus pen, which here is a small space closed in by a fence to keep animals in one place. So the picture is a low muddy square behind the farm buildings, a gate you have to check twice, a strong smell, and animals living close together. Everything else this word does is that square, moved somewhere new.
The source records the word as a compound of pig + pen, so the modern uses all rest on that plain build.
來源把這個字記成 pig + pen 的複合字。所以今天的用法都疊在同一個很直白的組合上:關豬的那一圈。
Wiktionary entry 'pigpen' (kaikki snapshot 3f6f69a190036ae4): "Compound of pig + pen."
Two branches
關豬的地方,和像那樣的地方
這一組就是核心畫面本身,再加上把畫面借去形容別的地方。中間只隔了一步:從真的養豬的地方,到「亂得像養豬的地方」。
noun · B1
A small fenced area or simple building on a farm where pigs are kept.
豬圈
格子裡的字母
這個意思跟核心畫面之間的連結是聯想上的,不是歷史上的:來源沒有說明這個密碼為什麼叫 pigpen,所以把它當成記憶的鉤子就好。
noun · C1
In secret codes: a simple code in which each letter is written as the shape of the small box it sits in on a grid.
豬圈密碼