核心畫面

Air so full of blowing snow that you cannot see through it. The wind is doing as much work as the snow: snow alone just falls, but snow plus wind fills the whole space between you and everything else.

可以想成一整片空氣裡都是被風吹著跑的雪,白到看不清前面。雪自己只是材料,真正讓它變成 storm 的是風。有了風,雪更多收起可以想成一整片空氣裡都是被風吹著跑的雪,白到看不清前面。雪自己只是材料,真正讓它變成 storm 的是風。有了風,雪不只是從天上掉下來,而是塞滿你和外面世界之間的每一寸空間。記住這個「滿眼都是飛雪」的畫面,這個字的兩個意思就都通了。

From the word’s history

The word is simply snow + storm, and earlier English wrote it as two words (snow storm) or with a hyphen (snow-storm) before the two halves grew together.

這個字就是 snow 加 storm。早期英文寫成 snow storm 兩個字,或加連字號 snow-storm,後來才黏成一個字,所以字面本來就是「雪的風暴」。

Wiktionary entry 'snowstorm' (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:337905191)

Two branches

天上真的下的那一場

這是這個字的本業:真正在外面發生、會讓人出不了門的天氣。

noun · B1

A storm in which a lot of snow falls and strong wind blows it around, so the air is full of moving snow and it is hard to see or to travel.

暴風雪

握在手裡的那一場(英式用法)

同一個畫面被縮小、封進玻璃球裡。搖一搖,白色碎片在液體裡亂飛,看起來就是核心畫面的迷你版,於是整個玩具借用了那場雪的名字。

noun · B2

A small glass ball with a little scene inside, such as a house or a tree; when you shake it, white pieces float through the liquid and settle like falling snow. This use belongs mainly to British English; in American English the usual word is snow globe.

雪花球