割完之後留下的那一層
兩個意思都是同一個畫面，只是換了地點：一個在田裡，一個在臉上。英文裡常見的那個意思其實是後來的，字的來源在田裡。
noun · B2
The short stiff pieces of stalk left standing in a field after wheat, rice or another crop has been cut.
（收割後的）殘株、稻茬
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: what is left standing after something has been cut short. A machine takes the top of every stalk and leaves the bottom rooted in the ground — a whole field of short, stiff ends that you can feel through a shoe. A razor does the same thing to a face. The picture is not the stalk and not the hair; it is the rough, even, cut-off layer that stays behind, and the fact that you know it by touch.
可以想成「東西被割短之後，留在原地的那一層」。收割機割走每根莖的上半截，下半截還插在土裡，整片田都是短短硬硬的斷面，…更多收起
可以想成「東西被割短之後，留在原地的那一層」。收割機割走每根莖的上半截，下半截還插在土裡，整片田都是短短硬硬的斷面，隔著鞋底都感覺得到。刮鬍刀在臉上做的是同一件事。這個畫面的重點不是稻草，也不是鬍子，而是被齊齊割掉之後留下來的那一層粗糙的東西，以及你是用「摸」認出它的。From the word’s history
Through Middle English and Old French from Latin stipula, 'stalk, straw'. The word starts in the field, with what is left of the straw.
經由中古英文和古法文，來自拉丁文 stipula（莖、稻草）。這個字是從田裡開始的，講的就是稻草被割之後剩下的部分。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1041501461): Middle English stuble, from Anglo-Norman/Old French estoble, from Latin stipula “stalk, straw”.
One branch