核心畫面

Picture a row of things that are supposed to meet one straight line, and one of them sitting slightly off it. You nudge it back until the line runs clean again. That is realign, and the picture stays the same however large the row gets: photo edges on a shelf, wheels under a bike, columns on a page, departments in a company, people standing on one side of an argument. What never changes is that something has a line to meet, and it is being brought back to it.

可以想成一排東西本來該對上同一條直線,其中一樣稍微歪掉了。你把它推回去,那條線就又順了。realign 就是這個畫面更多收起可以想成一排東西本來該對上同一條直線,其中一樣稍微歪掉了。你把它推回去,那條線就又順了。realign 就是這個畫面,而且不管這一排放大到多大,畫面都一樣:層架上照片的邊、單車的輪子、頁面上的欄位、公司裡的部門,甚至站在同一邊的人。始終不變的是:有一條線要對上,而某樣東西正被帶回那條線上。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives realign as re- + align, with re- reaching English through Old French from Latin re-. The core image is the word taken apart: line it up again.

Wiktionary 記錄 realign 由 re- 加 align 組成,re- 經古法文來自拉丁文 re-。核心畫面其實就是把這個字拆開念:再排一次線。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract supplied in packet, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1321770094:6534)

Two branches

把東西挪回那條線上

這一族就是核心畫面本身,尺度最小、最看得見。

verb · B2

To move something a small amount so that it sits in the right position in relation to something else.

重新對齊/調正

把組織和人對到同一條線上

同一個畫面放大:要對齊的不再是桌上的東西,而是部門、預算、優先順序,甚至人的立場。這是理解上的連結,不是歷史演變的主張。

verb · B2

To change the way a company, a group, or a set of plans is organized, so that its parts fit together in a new way or point at a new goal.

重新調整(組織、方向)