不趕時間
這一家就是核心畫面本身，只是分成「手在動」和「腳在動」兩種。
verb · B2
To spend time doing small jobs and little odd things in a slow, relaxed way, without trying to finish anything important. Usually followed by around, about or in.
東摸西摸
這個拼法底下其實是3個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 東摸西摸 · 推桿 · 突突作響
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putter
v核心畫面
You can picture someone with a free afternoon and nothing that has to be finished. They wipe a shelf, move a plant, walk to the window and back. Hands and feet keep going; the clock does not matter. Both meanings in this group are that same motion — one of them applied to doing things, the other to going somewhere.
可以想成一個下午沒有安排的人。他擦一下架子、搬一下盆栽、走到窗邊再走回來。手腳一直在動，可是沒有一件事趕時間。這一組…更多收起
可以想成一個下午沒有安排的人。他擦一下架子、搬一下盆栽、走到窗邊再走回來。手腳一直在動，可是沒有一件事趕時間。這一組的兩個意思，都是同一種「不急」的動作——一個用在做事上，一個用在走路上。From the word’s history
Wiktionary records this putter as an alteration of potter, the form British writers usually use for the same idea of busying yourself with small things.
Wiktionary 記載這個 putter 是 potter 的變體寫法。英式英語多半寫 potter，講的是同一件事：手上一直有小事在做，但沒有一件事重要。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:283034454:3726) — "Alteration of potter."
One branch
A second word, same spelling
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putter
n核心畫面
Picture the very last few metres of a golf hole. The ball is already on the smooth short grass, and nobody wants it in the air any more — they want it to roll. The tool for that is flat-faced and short, and the shot is called a putt. This group is simply that moment, named twice: once for the club that does the rolling, once for the person doing it.
可以想成高爾夫最後那幾公尺。球已經在洞附近那片短草上了，沒有人要它再飛起來，大家只要它滾過去。做這件事的工具桿面是平…更多收起
可以想成高爾夫最後那幾公尺。球已經在洞附近那片短草上了，沒有人要它再飛起來，大家只要它滾過去。做這件事的工具桿面是平的、桿身是短的，這一下擊球叫做 putt。這一組就是這個畫面被命名了兩次：一次給那支負責滾球的桿，一次給正在推的那個人。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the origin as putt + -er. The suffix -er names the one that does the action, and English lets that be either a tool or a person — which is exactly why both meanings share the spelling.
Wiktionary 記載的詞源是 putt + -er。-er 指「做這件事的那一個」，而英文的 -er 既可以指工具也可以指人。這正好解釋了為什麼球桿和球員會共用同一個拼法。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:283042784:7532) — "From putt + -er."
One branch
推球的桿與推球的人
兩個意思都直接站在核心畫面上，差別只在 -er 指的是工具還是人。
noun · B2
A golf club with a flat face, used for the short, gentle shot that rolls the ball along the ground towards the hole or into it.
推桿
A second word, same spelling
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putter
v核心畫面
This one is a noise before it is a word. A small or tired engine does not give you one smooth note; it gives you a string of little bursts — put, put, put — and the word simply copies that. So the picture is a fishing boat leaving a harbour or an old scooter climbing a hill: slow, low-powered, and easy to hear long before you see it.
這個字可以想成先是一個聲音，才變成一個字。小引擎或老引擎發出來的不是順順的一條聲音，而是一小段一小段的：突、突、突。…更多收起
這個字可以想成先是一個聲音，才變成一個字。小引擎或老引擎發出來的不是順順的一條聲音，而是一小段一小段的：突、突、突。這個字就是照著那個聲音造的。所以畫面是一艘小漁船開出港口，或一台舊機車在爬坡：慢、力氣小，而且人還沒看到就先聽到了。From the word’s history
Wiktionary marks this verb as onomatopoeic — a word made directly from the sound it names.
Wiktionary 把這個動詞標為擬聲字，也就是直接照聲音造出來的詞。它跟高爾夫的 putt、跟 potter 那一支都沒有關係。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:283050316:3350) — "Onomatopoeic."