One way to hold presto: something going past so fast that the middle of it never reaches your eyes. On a page of music that speed is an instruction — take these notes at a run — and the fast movement itself ends up wearing the name. Push the same speed a little further and you stop being able to follow it at all: the hand moves, the coin is somewhere else, and the only honest report is that it happened. That is the shout at the end of a trick, and it is also what you say when a machine does in one second what you expected to take ten.

presto 可以想成一個畫面:東西跑得太快,中間那段根本來不及進到你眼睛裡。在樂譜上,這個快是一道指令——這幾行音符要用跑的;跑得快的那段音樂,後來乾脆就叫這個名字。再快一點,你就完全跟不上了:手一動,硬幣已經不在原處,你只能說它發生了。那一聲喊出來的 presto 就是這樣來的。機器一秒鐘做完你以為要十秒的事,用的也是同一個畫面。

From the word’s history

English took presto straight from Italian presto, meaning 'quickly'. Both branches in English keep that one word: the musical instruction is the plain meaning, and the magician's call is the same speed pushed to the point where it looks impossible.

英文的 presto 直接借自義大利文 presto,意思就是「快」。英文這兩條線都還握著這個字:樂譜上的用法是它字面的意思,而魔術師喊的那一聲,是同樣的快被推到看起來不可能的地步。

Wiktionary, "presto"

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