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sink your own ship · verb
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）
這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “scupper”
- 1scupper · sink your own ship鑿沉（自己的船）One way to hold this verb: a ship going down, and the people who sent it down are the ones who were standing…
- 2scupper · drain hole on a ship's deck（船上的）排水孔Think of a flat surface with water sitting on it, and a rim around the edge holding that water in.
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scupper · sink your own ship
vOne 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.
可以想成一艘船沉下去，而讓它沉的，就是原本站在上面的人。沒有撞到什麼，也沒有遇上風浪，是有人決定它到此為止。英文把同樣的形狀用在計畫上：一樁交易、一個希望，被開了一個洞就整個沉了，而那個洞常常只是一項決定或一則消息。要說明的是，字源資料說這個動詞來源不明，跟名詞 scupper 的關係「可能有但不太可能」。所以這個畫面是幫忙記憶的連結，不是歷史事實。
One branch
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scupper · drain hole on a ship's deck
nThink 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.
可以想成一個平面上積著水，邊緣有一圈東西把水擋住。scupper 就是在那圈邊緣上開的一個缺口。水找到它，流出去，平面就乾了。這個字指的是那個開口本身：不是水管，也不是抽水機，只是水離開的那條路。船的甲板是這樣，平屋頂也是這樣，所以同一個字兩邊都用。
From the word’s history
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, "scupper" (etymology 1)
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讓水離開的開口
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drain hole on a ship's deck · noun
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