核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a container filled right to the top, with the contents pressing against the lid. Nothing more will go in, and you can see that from outside without opening it. The container changes from use to use — a book, a report, a whole period of history, or a person at the end of a big meal — but the picture does not. The Latin behind the word says the same thing: filled up.

可以想成一個裝到頂的容器,裡面的東西正撐著蓋子。再也塞不進去了,而且不用打開,從外面就看得出來。換不同的用法,換的只更多收起可以想成一個裝到頂的容器,裡面的東西正撐著蓋子。再也塞不進去了,而且不用打開,從外面就看得出來。換不同的用法,換的只是那個容器:可能是一本書、一份報告、一整段歷史,也可能是一個剛吃完大餐的人。畫面本身沒有變。資料裡的拉丁文來源也在說同一件事——被填滿的。

From the word’s history

From Middle English, from Old French replet, from Latin repletus, filled up; the modern uses all keep that passive sense of having been filled.

資料上寫,這個字經中古英文、古法語 replet,來自拉丁文 repletus,意思是「被填滿的」。今天的每個用法都還留著那個被動的味道:不是它主動去裝,而是它已經被裝滿了。

Wiktionary etymology for replete (packet evidence): From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.

Two branches

裝得滿滿的(東西、地方、文字)

這一支直接就是核心畫面:容器和它裡面多到滿出來的內容。動詞用法則是同一個畫面的動作版。

adjective · C1

Full of something, or having a large amount of it, with the thing it is full of named after the word with.

充滿……的

人被食物裝滿

容器換成了人,裝進去的東西換成了飯菜。字面上還是「被裝滿」,只是這次滿的人是你自己。

adjective · C2

So full of food or drink that you could not manage any more.

吃飽喝足的