核心畫面

One way to hold it: a building with a line through it. On one side of the line is the floor where the work actually happens — machines running, goods out, people standing up and moving. On the other side are the quiet rooms: offices, stock, plans, paperwork. Shop floor names the loud side of that line. Sometimes it means the space itself, and sometimes it means the people who spend their day standing on it.

可以想成一棟建築物中間畫了一條線。線的一邊,是真正在做事的那塊地面:機器在轉、東西攤出來、人站著走來走去。線的另一邊更多收起可以想成一棟建築物中間畫了一條線。線的一邊,是真正在做事的那塊地面:機器在轉、東西攤出來、人站著走來走去。線的另一邊是比較安靜的房間:辦公室、倉庫、計畫、文件。shop floor 講的就是吵的那一邊。有時候它指那個空間本身,有時候它指整天站在上面的那批人。

Two branches

真正在幹活的那塊地面

這一支是線的吵的那一邊,看的是空間。兩個意思都用 on the shop floor。

noun · B2

The part of a factory or workshop where the ordinary workers make things, as opposed to the offices where the managers sit.

生產現場(工廠裡)

站在那塊地面上的人

鏡頭從地面抬起來,看站在上面的人,地名就變成了人的名字。

noun · B2

The ordinary workers in a factory, taken together as one group, as opposed to the managers.

基層員工(全體)