核心畫面

Think of putting your hand flat on an old stone wall and pushing. Nothing gives, nothing shifts, nothing . Solidity is the name for what your hand just found out: the thing holds, and it will still hold tomorrow.

可以想成:你把手掌貼在一面老石牆上,用力推。它不動、不彎、也不發出聲音。solidity 就是在給「你的手剛剛摸到的更多收起可以想成:你把手掌貼在一面老石牆上,用力推。它不動、不彎、也不發出聲音。solidity 就是在給「你的手剛剛摸到的那個性質」一個名字——它撐得住,而且明天還是撐得住。這個「撐得住」既可以是石頭,也可以是一段關係或一份報告。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives solid + -ity, from Middle French solidite and Latin soliditas. The suffix -ity turns an adjective into the name of its quality, as in pure and purity.

Wiktionary 記載 solidity 由 solid 加 -ity 構成,經中古法文 solidité 上溯到拉丁文 soliditās。-ity 的功能是把形容詞變成「那個性質本身」,像 pure→purity。所以這個字從一開始就是在給「solid 的那個性質」取名。

Wiktionary entry for solidity, packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1175345598

From the picture

靠得住的穩固

把手從石牆移開,改成「壓一下」一家公司、一段友誼、一份報告。推得動嗎?會不會說變就變?查得下去嗎?答案一樣是「不動」的時候,英文用的還是同一個字。

noun · C1

The quality of being steady and reliable, so that something lasts and people can depend on it — used about organisations, businesses, relationships, and about arguments or evidence that hold up when they are tested.

穩固可靠

Also in this word

noun · C1

How hard, firm and strong a thing is — the quality of holding its shape, not bending, breaking or giving way when weight or force is put on it.

堅固、結實