聽到的那一下
這一支停在事情發生的當下：東西正在落下、停住、發出聲音。
noun · B2
The short, flat sound made when something wet or soft hits a hard surface, like an egg landing on the floor.
啪嗒一聲
核心畫面
One event, two halves. Something wet and soft falls, and you hear a short flat sound as it stops — no bounce, no ring. Then you look down and see what is left: a fat middle with thin edges running out from it. The sound, the action and the mark are all called splat, and the word itself copies the noise.
可以想成一件事分成兩半。一個濕濕軟軟的東西掉下來，停住的那一瞬間發出一聲短短的悶響，不彈、也沒有回音。接著你低頭一看…更多收起
可以想成一件事分成兩半。一個濕濕軟軟的東西掉下來，停住的那一瞬間發出一聲短短的悶響，不彈、也沒有回音。接著你低頭一看，地上留下一團：中間厚，邊緣拉出細細的尾巴。那一聲、那個動作、那攤痕跡，英文都叫 splat。這個字的拼法本身就是照著那個聲音來的。From the word’s history
The Wiktionary evidence supplied with this batch marks the sound word as onomatopoeic: the word imitates the noise directly. A separate, older splat (the narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back, from Middle English splatten, to spread flat or split) is a different route and is not written up here.
packet 附的 Wiktionary 資料把聲音的 splat 標為 onomatopoeic，也就是直接模仿聲音造出來的字。這解釋了為什麼名詞、動詞、痕跡三個用法都圍著同一個聲音轉。另外還有一個來源不同的 splat，指椅背中間那條窄木板，來自中古英文 splatten（攤平、剖開），這次沒有寫進來。
Wiktionary entries supplied in this batch's evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:682149579 marked Onomatopoeic; kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:682148451 for the chair-back word)
Two branches
留下來的那一攤
同一個畫面往後推一秒：聲音散掉之後，眼睛看到的那個形狀。所以它不是新的意思，而是核心事件的另一半。
noun · B2
The uneven mark or blob left behind where something thick and wet has hit a surface and spread out — for example a splat of paint or mud.
潑濺留下的痕跡