核心畫面

You can picture something coming down out of the air that could easily be smashed on arrival — a craft with fragile instruments inside. It touches the ground so gently that nothing breaks. The phrase does not describe the trip down; it describes the state of things the moment after contact. Everything that mattered is still whole.

可以想成一樣東西從空中降下來,而它本來很容易摔壞。它輕輕碰到地面,裡面的東西一樣也沒壞。這個詞畫的不是下降的過程,而更多收起可以想成一樣東西從空中降下來,而它本來很容易摔壞。它輕輕碰到地面,裡面的東西一樣也沒壞。這個詞畫的不是下降的過程,而是落地那一刻之後的樣子:該保住的都保住了。所以它的反面不是「降得慢」,而是 crash(摔壞)。

Two branches

真的落到地面

這一支就是核心畫面本身,沒有轉彎。

noun · B2

A landing in which a spacecraft or other flying vehicle comes down onto the ground gently, so that the vehicle and the things it is carrying are not damaged.

軟著陸

經濟像飛行器一樣降落

把一個正在高速運轉的經濟,看成一台必須降下來的飛行器:降是一定要降的,問題只在落地時會不會摔壞。

noun · C1

A situation in which a country's economy slows down in a controlled way, so that prices stop rising so fast but businesses and jobs are not badly hurt.

軟著陸