核心畫面

Picture one bar under the driver's hand. Push it, and the car changes gear because you told it to. Everything this phrase means grows out of that single bar: first the part itself, then the whole car that is defined by having one.

可以想成駕駛手邊的那一根桿子。你推它,車子就換檔——換檔的決定在你手上,不在車子手上。這個詞的兩個意思都從這根桿子長更多收起可以想成駕駛手邊的那一根桿子。你推它,車子就換檔——換檔的決定在你手上,不在車子手上。這個詞的兩個意思都從這根桿子長出來:先是桿子本身,再來是「裝了這根桿子的整台車」。

One branch

那根桿子,和裝了它的車

兩個意思共用同一根桿子,差別只在說話的人指的是零件還是整台車。

noun · B1

The bar between or beside the front seats of a car that the driver moves by hand to change from one gear to another.

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