松樹給我們的兩樣東西
這一組就是核心畫面本身:同一個字,一邊是木料,一邊是林子。
noun · B1
The wood that comes from pine trees, used for things like furniture, floors, shelves and model-making.
松木
One way to hold this word: it is simply pine plus wood, and the interesting part is that English wood already means two things — the material you build with, and a patch of trees you can walk into. Pinewood inherits both. Say pinewood with nothing in front of it and you are talking about pale, soft timber. Say a pinewood or the pinewoods and you are standing among trees. The small words do the choosing, and the same word then gets borrowed as a place name.
Wiktionary gives the origin as pine + wood, a plain compound. Because the second part, wood, carries both the material sense and the small-forest sense in ordinary English, the compound naturally arrived with both, and the name Pinewood is recorded as coming from the common noun.
來源資料把它的由來寫成 pine + wood,是一個很直白的複合字。因為 wood 這一半在日常英文裡本來就同時有「木料」和「小樹林」兩個意思,所以合起來的 pinewood 一出生就帶著兩個意思。片廠的名字 Pinewood 也被記成是從這個普通名詞來的。
Wiktionary entry for pinewood, packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1597285016:15024 — etymology_text: "From pine + wood."; and Wiktionary entry for Pinewood, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1597302740:9407 — etymology_text: "From pinewood."
Two branches
松樹給我們的兩樣東西
這一組就是核心畫面本身:同一個字,一邊是木料,一邊是林子。
noun · B1
The wood that comes from pine trees, used for things like furniture, floors, shelves and model-making.
松木
被借去當名字
從普通名詞往外一步:拿樹林的畫面當地方的名字,來源資料直接記成 From pinewood。
noun · C1
Pinewood is a large film and television studio complex in England, west of London, where many well-known films and programmes are made.
松林片廠(英國製片廠)