核心畫面

Picture yourself standing somewhere, looking at one thing. Move a few steps and the same thing shows you a different shape. That standing spot is what the words say: the point you view from. Everything this phrase does comes from moving that spot — you can move it to a measure (count only the money, only the safety), you can move it to another person (stand where she stands), or you can move it to a character inside a story (see only what he sees).

可以想成你站在某個位置看一樣東西。往旁邊走幾步,同一個東西就露出不同的樣子。這兩個字講的正是「你看出去的那個點」。這更多收起可以想成你站在某個位置看一樣東西。往旁邊走幾步,同一個東西就露出不同的樣子。這兩個字講的正是「你看出去的那個點」。這個詞的每個用法,都是在移動那個點:把點移到一把尺上(只算錢、只算安全)、移到另一個人身上(站到她的位置看)、或移到故事裡的某個角色身上(只看得到他看到的)。

From the word’s history

English took the phrase straight from French point de vue, which is literally 'point of seeing' — the spot you are seeing from.

本卷證據說這個說法是照著法文 point de vue 一字一字翻過來的。法文那個詞字面就是「看的那個點」。所以中文常翻「角度、觀點」,但它骨子裡講的是站的位置。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1062502132): 'Calque of French point de vue.'

Two branches

拿哪一把尺量

把站的位置換成一把尺:站在「錢」這個點上看,事情一個樣;站在「安全」上看,又是另一個樣。

noun · B2

One angle you can judge a situation from. You name the angle — money, health, safety, the law — and then say how the situation looks when only that angle is counted.

角度

誰的眼睛在看

這一家把那個點放在人身上:位置屬於某個人,看到的東西就帶著那個人的經歷。

noun · B2

What one person thinks or feels about something, treated as their own position — the opinion that belongs to them, shaped by where they stand and what they have lived through.

看法