真的有肥皂
這一支就是核心畫面本身：肥皂真的在場，差別只在它在水裡，還是在你身上。
adjective · B1
With soap mixed into it. Water becomes soapy when you put soap in it, so it looks cloudy, feels slippery, and makes bubbles.
含肥皂的
核心畫面
Think of a bowl of water with soap stirred into it: cloudy, slippery, covered in bubbles. Everything soapy can be traced back to that bowl. Sometimes the soap is really there, in the water or on your hands. Sometimes it is only a resemblance — a stone that feels like that, a taste that reminds you of that. And one use has left the bathroom altogether and gone to the television.
可以想成一盆攪進肥皂的水：霧霧的、滑滑的、上面都是泡泡。soapy 的各種用法，大致都能回到這盆水。有時候肥皂是真的…更多收起
可以想成一盆攪進肥皂的水：霧霧的、滑滑的、上面都是泡泡。soapy 的各種用法，大致都能回到這盆水。有時候肥皂是真的在那裡，在水裡，或在你手上。有時候只是「像」——石頭摸起來像、味道嚐起來像。還有一支已經離開浴室，跑到電視上去了。From the word’s history
The word is soap plus the ending -y, the same ending that turns dirt into dirty and salt into salty: it marks something as carrying the thing named.
這個字是 soap 加上字尾 -y，跟 dirt→dirty、salt→salty 是同一種造法：名詞加 -y，表示「帶有那個東西」。所以 soapy 最基本的意思就是「帶著肥皂的」。
packet Wiktionary etymology for soapy (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1234303432): "From soap + -y."
Three branches
像肥皂的感覺
把核心畫面裡「滑滑的、有味道的」那部分抽出來，套到根本沒有肥皂的東西上，變成一個比喻。
adjective · B2
Feeling, tasting or smelling like soap, even when there is no soap in it at all.
像肥皂的
像肥皂劇
這一支跟手上的肥皂沒有直接關係；它是從 soap opera 這個詞借過來的，中間隔了一層。
adjective · C1
Like a soap opera: full of big emotions, romance, arguments and family secrets, with the feelings turned up higher than in real life.
像肥皂劇的