核心畫面

One way to hold sensuous: the moment the body answers before the mind does. Silk touches the neck, warm bread reaches the nose, a low note fills the room — and you have already reacted. Every use of the word stands somewhere on that line between the senses and thought, and the word always leans to the senses.

sensuous 的核心畫面可以想成:身體比腦袋先回答的那一秒。絲綢碰到脖子、熱麵包的香味飄到鼻子、一個低音填滿整個更多收起sensuous 的核心畫面可以想成:身體比腦袋先回答的那一秒。絲綢碰到脖子、熱麵包的香味飄到鼻子、一個低音填滿整個房間——你其實已經反應了,才開始想。這個字的每一個用法,都站在「感官」和「思考」之間的那條線上,而且一律往感官那邊靠。

From the word’s history

The packet derives sensuous from Latin sensus, meaning sense or feeling, plus the adjective ending -ous. The word therefore starts out as 'having to do with the senses', which is exactly the line the modern uses spread out along.

來源資料說 sensuous 來自拉丁文 sensus(感覺、感官)加上形容詞字尾 -ous。也就是說,這個字一開始就是「跟感官有關的」,而今天的各種用法,就是沿著這條線往不同方向散開。

Wiktionary entry supplied in packet, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:703762722

Three branches

感官覺得舒服

核心畫面加上一個判斷:這份感官反應是舒服的。差別只在舒服的是東西還是人。

adjective · C1

Giving pleasure to your senses — pleasant to touch, to hear, to see, to taste, or to smell.

感官愉悅的

單純指「跟感官有關」

把核心畫面裡的「舒服」拿掉,只留下「這是從感官來的」,就成了學術文章用的分類詞。

adjective · C2

Connected with the senses — with what a person sees, hears, touches, tastes, or smells, rather than with what they think.

感官的、感受性的

帶著身體吸引力的美

還是「身體先有反應」,只是這次反應的對象是一個人,而且反應偏向吸引。

adjective · C2

Attractive in a way that suggests physical desire, especially in how someone looks, moves, or sounds.

帶性感魅力的