種在盆子裡
這一支是「裝進容器」最看得見的樣子：根在盆子裡，土也在盆子裡，所以整棵植物端得起來、搬得走。
adjective · B1
Growing in a pot of soil instead of in the open ground, so the whole plant can be kept indoors, put on a shelf or window, and carried from place to place.
盆栽的
核心畫面
One way to hold potted: a small container, and something put inside it. The container decides how much fits. Roots go into a , so they get that much soil and no more, and the whole plant can now be picked up and carried. Cooked fish goes into a little jar, so you get that much and it keeps. A long history goes onto one card, so only the few facts that matter fit, and the rest stays outside. In every case potted is telling you less about the thing itself than about the small, portable container it has been put into.
可以想成一個小小的容器，裡面裝了東西。容器有多大，裝得下的就有多少。根被收進花盆，土就那麼多，整棵植物也因此搬得動。…更多收起
可以想成一個小小的容器，裡面裝了東西。容器有多大，裝得下的就有多少。根被收進花盆，土就那麼多，整棵植物也因此搬得動。煮好的魚被壓進小罐，份量就那麼多，而且放得久。一整段歷史被塞進一張紙，只有最重要的幾句進得去，細節留在外面。potted 說的往往不是東西本身，而是它被裝進了一個小小的、拿得走的容器。From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary entry gives potted as pot plus -ed, so the word literally means put into a pot. It also records that the word-about-words use grew by analogy with potted meat, first written down by L. Susan Stebbing in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), where potted thinking is a compressed statement that saves you the trouble of thinking.
資料上寫 potted 是 pot 加 -ed，字面就是「被放進罐／盆裡的」。資料也記著，用來講「話」的那一支，是照 potted meat（罐頭肉）比喻來的；最早被記下的用例是 1939 年 L. Susan Stebbing 的 potted thinking，指「壓縮過、省得你自己想」的說法。
Wiktionary entry for potted, supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1310586106); etymology_text cites L. Susan Stebbing, Thinking to Some Purpose (1939).
Three branches
裝罐保存的肉或魚
一樣是放進小容器，但這次容器多做了一件事：把東西封住、保存住，於是食物的樣子也跟著變成軟軟的醬。
adjective · B2
Potted meat or fish has been cooked and packed into a small pot or jar to keep, usually crushed into a soft paste that you spread on bread.
（肉、魚）做成罐裝抹醬的
壓縮成小份的說法
同一個「裝罐」的動作用到話上面。資料上記著，這一支正是照 potted meat 比喻出來的，不是另外一條來源。
adjective · C1
A potted history, biography or version of something is a short, simple account of it that keeps only the main facts and leaves out the detail.
濃縮版的（歷史／簡介／說法）
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pottedadj
- 1
Grown or planted in a plant pot.
- Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day.
- 2
informalPrepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.
- The company released a potted statement.
- 3
slangDrunk.
- 4
Expressed in a relatively short, brief form.
- a potted history
- what she shared aloud with him after the movie or the episode was over was often just a potted version of a much more probing and speculative conversation that had already happened in her head.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。