親手讓一件事沉下去
兩個意思共用一個動作形狀:不是壞掉,是被人決定終結。差別只在沉下去的是船,還是計畫。
verb · C2
To sink your own ship on purpose. The people on board make the ship go down themselves; it does not sink by accident or because of a storm.
鑿沉(自己的船)
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 鑿沉(自己的船) · (船上的)排水孔
One way to hold this verb: a ship going down, and the people who sent it down are the ones who were standing on it. Nothing hit the ship. Someone decided it was finished. English uses that same shape for plans — a deal or a hope that is holed and goes under, usually because of one decision or one piece of news.
One branch
親手讓一件事沉下去
兩個意思共用一個動作形狀:不是壞掉,是被人決定終結。差別只在沉下去的是船,還是計畫。
verb · C2
To sink your own ship on purpose. The people on board make the ship go down themselves; it does not sink by accident or because of a storm.
鑿沉(自己的船)
A second word, same spelling
Think of a flat surface with water sitting on it, and a rim around the edge holding that water in. A scupper is the gap cut through that rim. Water finds it, runs out, and the surface is dry again. The word names the opening itself — not a pipe, not a pump, just the way out.
The origin is uncertain. One suggestion links it to Middle English scope ("scoop"), another to Dutch schop ("shovel") plus -er, and another to Dutch scheppen ("to draw off"). All three point at the same idea: getting water out.
來源並不確定。字源資料提出幾種可能:中古英文的 scope(杓子)、荷蘭文 schop(鏟子)加上 -er,或荷蘭文 scheppen(把水舀出去)。三條線索指向同一個意思——把水弄出去,正好就是排水孔在做的事。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract) 'scupper', Etymology 1: "Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English scope ("scoop") or Dutch schop ("shovel") + -er; or from Dutch scheppen ("to draw off")."
One branch
讓水離開的開口
兩個意思其實是同一個裝置,只是換了地方:先在船上,後來在建築上。
noun · C2
A hole or opening at the edge of a ship, level with the deck, that lets water on the deck run straight back out into the sea.
(船上的)排水孔