核心畫面

Picture one movement: a covering layer being pulled off whatever it is sitting on. That movement is strip, and -er names whoever or whatever performs it. So stripper does not really name a kind of person or a kind of tool — it names the role of taking a layer off. Clothes, paint, the plastic skin of a wire: different layers, same job.

可以想成一個動作:把蓋在表面的那一層,整片拉下來。strip 就是這個動作,-er 是負責做這件事的角色。所以 st更多收起可以想成一個動作:把蓋在表面的那一層,整片拉下來。strip 就是這個動作,-er 是負責做這件事的角色。所以 stripper 記的不是某一種人,也不是某一種工具,而是「把一層剝掉的那一位」。剝的東西可以是衣服,可以是油漆,也可以是電線外面的塑膠皮。層次不同,工作是同一件。

From the word’s history

The packet's Wiktionary entry gives the word as strip + -er, which matches the picture directly: the agent of stripping.

來源資料把這個字記成 strip 加 -er,正好就是上面那個畫面:做「剝掉一層」這件事的角色。人或工具都能填進這個位置。

packet evidence, Wiktionary 'stripper' etymology_text: 'From strip + -er.'

One branch

把一層剝掉的那一位

兩個意思都直接站在核心畫面上,差別只在「剝的是什麼」以及「做的是人還是東西」。

noun · B2

Someone whose job is to take their clothes off in front of an audience as a sexually exciting performance, usually in a club or at a private party.

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