核心畫面

Picture a pot already simmering on someone's stove. Nobody cooked it for you, nobody asked what you wanted, and the lid is still on. You sit down, the lid comes off, and you eat what is in there. One way to hold pot luck is that image: not knowing in advance, and taking what comes.

可以想成爐子上已經在煮的一口鍋。沒有人為你特別開火,也沒有人問你想吃什麼。蓋子還蓋著,你坐下來,掀開來才知道裡面是什更多收起可以想成爐子上已經在煮的一口鍋。沒有人為你特別開火,也沒有人問你想吃什麼。蓋子還蓋著,你坐下來,掀開來才知道裡面是什麼。pot luck 的幾種用法,一種想法是都從這個畫面長出來——重點不在東西好不好,而在「事先不知道,然後接受端上來的」。

Two branches

鍋裡有什麼就吃什麼

這一家最靠近那口鍋:講的都是一餐沒有事先安排,端出來什麼就吃什麼。

noun · B2

If you take pot luck at someone's home, you eat whatever food they already have in the house, instead of a meal that was bought or cooked specially for you.

有什麼吃什麼

把碰運氣借去用在吃飯以外

食物退場,剩下那個動作本身:沒有資訊就先選,然後接受結果。

noun · B2

If you take pot luck, you choose something without knowing much about it and accept whatever you get, hoping it turns out to be what you wanted.

碰運氣選