把正在發展的事壓下來
這一組最貼近核心畫面:東西還在動,一句話或一個動作把它按住。
verb · C1
To stop something such as a rumour, a hope, a plan or a protest from going any further, by saying or doing something firm and quick.
壓下
One firm, quick action that ends something before it can go on — the thing was moving, and now it is finished.
Wiktionary traces quash to Latin quassare, to shake or shatter, crossed with casso, to annul. The shattering picture and the annulling picture sit side by side in the modern word.
來源資料指出 quash 來自拉丁文 quassāre(搖動、震碎),路上又受到 cassō(宣告無效)的影響。一條線是把東西震散,一條線是宣告某件事不算數。今天的兩組用法剛好各自對上一條線索:謠言和反抗被「震散」,判決和命令被「宣告無效」。
Wiktionary entry for quash (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:327637565), supplied in the evidence packet
Two branches
把正在發展的事壓下來
這一組最貼近核心畫面:東西還在動,一句話或一個動作把它按住。
verb · C1
To stop something such as a rumour, a hope, a plan or a protest from going any further, by saying or doing something firm and quick.
壓下
在法律上把決定作廢
同樣是一個力量把事情按停,只是被按的東西已經白紙黑字寫下來,所以按停的方式是「宣告它不算數」。
verb · C1
To use official power, usually the power of a court, to cancel a decision, judgment or order, so that it no longer counts and nobody has to follow it.
撤銷