核心畫面

Picture a row of guns along a ship's side. They do not go off one after another. Someone gives a signal and every one in the same instant, so what reaches you is a single enormous sound made of many. Then quiet, and everyone waiting to see what comes next. Many at once, in one moment, loud enough to change the air — that is a useful way to hold every use of salvo.

salvo 可以想成船側排開的一整排砲。它們不是一發一發放。有人一聲令下,全部在同一瞬間開火,傳到你耳朵裡的是一個由更多收起salvo 可以想成船側排開的一整排砲。它們不是一發一發放。有人一聲令下,全部在同一瞬間開火,傳到你耳朵裡的是一個由很多發合成的巨響。然後是安靜,大家等著看接下來會怎樣。很多、同時、大到空氣都在震——用這個畫面去看 salvo 的每一種用法,都對得上。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces this salvo to Latin salve, hail, the ordinary Roman greeting, by way of salva, a salute or volley. Firing guns together began as a way of greeting and honouring someone, which is why the word still covers the ceremonial use as well as the battle one.

Wiktionary 說這個 salvo 來自拉丁文 salve(你好、平安),那是羅馬人見面的招呼語,中間經過 salva(致敬、齊放)。同時放砲本來就是一種問候和敬禮,所以這個字到今天還同時涵蓋典禮和戰場兩種場合。

Wiktionary entry for salvo, etymology 2, packet evidence source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:608300144 — from Latin salva 'salute, volley', from salve 'hail'.

Three branches

同時開火

這一族就是核心畫面本身,而且同時保留了戰場和典禮兩種場合。

noun · C1

The firing of several guns at the same moment, either in a battle or as part of a ceremony such as a salute.

齊射/禮砲

言語上的一波攻勢

砲口轉向對手,打出去的變成話和動作;仍然是一次一整批,而且仍然有兩個陣營。

noun · C2

A group of strong words or actions aimed all at once at someone you are arguing with or competing against, as one move in a longer fight.

一波攻勢/砲火

一起爆出來的聲音

同樣的巨響,發出來的換成一群人:笑聲、掌聲、歡呼在同一秒一起炸開。

noun · C2

A sudden burst of laughter, clapping or cheering that comes from many people at the same moment.

一陣(掌聲、笑聲)