核心畫面

Textured can be pictured as a piece of cloth held up to the light: the surface is not one flat thing, it is made of threads crossing each other, so your fingers catch on it and the light breaks up across it. Everything this word does comes back to that — a surface with small parts in it, rather than one blank plane. Move the picture from the hand to the ear or the eye of a reader, and the same word describes a song or a novel made of many strands.

textured 可以想成把一塊布舉起來對著光看:表面不是一整片平的,而是一條一條紗線交叉出來的。所以手指摸過去會卡更多收起textured 可以想成把一塊布舉起來對著光看:表面不是一整片平的,而是一條一條紗線交叉出來的。所以手指摸過去會卡住,光照上去也會被切成明暗。這個字所有的用法,都繞著這個畫面走:表面裡面有東西,不是一片空白。把這塊布從手上移到耳朵或讀者眼前,同一個字就變成在說一首歌、一本小說裡交疊的層次。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives textured as texture + -ed, and traces texture through Middle French texture to Latin textūra, from texō, to weave. The weaving picture is not a decoration added later: it is the oldest thing in the word.

根據 Wiktionary,textured 是 texture 加上 -ed;而 texture 經由中古法文 texture 上溯到拉丁文 textūra,來自 texō「編織」。所以「織」這個畫面不是後來附加的比喻,而是這個字最早就有的東西。摸得到的紋理、和作品裡交疊的層次,剛好是同一塊布的兩種看法。

Wiktionary via kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1479574591 (etymology tree): Latin texō > textūra > Middle French texture > English texture + -ed > textured.

Two branches

摸得到的表面

這一族就是那塊布本身:真的用手摸得到高低。差別只在說不說清楚是「哪一種」質地。

adjective · B2

Having a surface that is not smooth, so that you can feel or see small bumps, lines, or a raised pattern on it.

有紋理的

作品裡的層次

把那塊布從手上拿開,放進一本書、一首歌裡:摸不到了,但「很多條線交疊在一起」這件事一模一樣。這是概念上的延伸,方便理解,不是在說歷史上先有哪一個。

adjective · C1

Used about a work of art, a book, a piece of music, a film and so on that is made of many different parts put together, so that the whole thing feels rich and full rather than plain.

有層次的

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

texturedadj/ˈtɛk.st͡ʃɚd/

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    Having texture, not smooth.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。