核心畫面

One way to hold this word: something smooth being pushed into small folds. A hand crosses combed hair, wind crosses still water, and the flat surface breaks into little . Sometimes the folds fall out again in a second. Sometimes they are sewn in and stay, and then they have a name of their own. Even a person's calm can be pushed that way — a flat surface, one small remark, and small .

可以想成:ruffle 的畫面比較像「把平順的表面推出一道一道小皺褶」。手在梳好的頭髮上一撥,風在靜止的水面上一吹,更多收起可以想成:ruffle 的畫面比較像「把平順的表面推出一道一道小皺褶」。手在梳好的頭髮上一撥,風在靜止的水面上一吹,本來平的就變成一波一波。有時候這些皺褶馬上就散掉了。有時候它們被縫住、固定下來,就成了衣服邊上的荷葉邊。連心情也可以這樣看:本來平靜,被一句話撥一下,就起了小波紋。

From the word’s history

The supplied source traces ruffle to Middle English ruffelen, perhaps from Old Norse hrufla, to graze or scratch, or Middle Low German ruffelen, to wrinkle or curl, and links it to English ruff. The source itself says the further origin is unknown, so this is a possible route, not a settled one.

手上的來源說 ruffle 來自中古英文 ruffelen,可能跟古北歐語 hrufla(擦、刮)或中古低地德語 ruffelen(起皺、捲)有關,並且跟英文的 ruff(皺領)同一家。來源自己也說再往前就不清楚了,所以這只是一條可能的線,不是定論。

supplied packet: Wiktionary etymology for ruffle (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:976023267)

Two branches

把平順的東西弄出小皺褶(也包括心情)

這一組的皺褶是臨時的:撥一下、吹一下就起來,過一會兒又平回去。

verb · B2

To push or blow something smooth and flat so that it stops lying flat — hair, feathers, water or paper end up in small waves, or standing up in little folds.

弄亂;吹皺

被縫住、留下來的小皺褶

一樣是小皺褶,差別在於有人刻意做出來,而且用線固定,不會散開。

noun · B2

A strip of thin cloth gathered into many small folds and sewn on as decoration, usually along an edge such as a collar, sleeve, hem or curtain.

荷葉邊