核心畫面

Picture the machine at a building site: a heavy block is winched up high, held for a second, and then let go onto the top of a long post. Thud. The post goes down. Nothing about it is clever or quick — it is weight, falling straight, again and again, and the ground has no say in the matter. Hold on to that thud, because it is the whole word. Everything else English does with this phrase keeps the falling weight and throws away the building site.

可以想成工地上那台機器:一塊很重的鐵塊被吊高,停一秒,然後直接砸在長樁的頭上。碰。樁就下去了。它一點都不巧妙,也不快更多收起可以想成工地上那台機器:一塊很重的鐵塊被吊高,停一秒,然後直接砸在長樁的頭上。碰。樁就下去了。它一點都不巧妙,也不快——就是重量直直落下,一次又一次,地面沒有商量的餘地。記住那一聲「碰」,因為那就是這個詞的全部。英文後來的用法,都是把那個落下的重量留著,把工地丟掉。

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只留下那一下的力道

把機器丟掉,只留下重錘落下那一瞬間:重、直、擋不住。英文把這股力道借去形容人踢出來、打出來、敲出來的一擊。

noun · C1

A very hard hit — most often a powerful shot in football that flies at the goal too fast for anyone to stop.

勁射、強力的一擊

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noun · B2

A large building machine that forces long, heavy posts deep into the ground, usually by lifting a heavy weight and dropping it onto the top of the post.

打樁機