核心畫面

Picture a patch of grass cut shorter than any lawn you have walked on, then rolled flat until it feels like carpet under a shoe, with a hole in it. Nothing flies here. A ball put on this grass can only roll, and because the surface is so even, it rolls exactly where the slope sends it. That patch, with its hole and its gentle roll, is the whole of the word: both meanings are a piece of grass kept smooth so that a ball can be rolled into a hole.

可以想成一塊草地,修得比你走過的任何草皮都短,再壓到平得像地毯,上面挖了一個洞。這裡沒有飛出去的球。球放上去只會滾,更多收起可以想成一塊草地,修得比你走過的任何草皮都短,再壓到平得像地毯,上面挖了一個洞。這裡沒有飛出去的球。球放上去只會滾,而且因為地面太平了,它會完全照著坡度走。整個字就是這個畫面:一塊為了讓球滾進洞而保養得很平的草地。兩個意思的差別只在這塊草地長在哪裡,不在草地本身。

One branch

把球滾進洞的那塊平草地

兩個意思共用同一塊草地,分別放在正式球場和公園裡。

noun · B2

On a golf course, one of the smooth, very short areas of grass around a hole, where a player hits the ball gently so that it rolls along the ground and into the hole.

果嶺(推桿區)