缺席的那句謝謝
同一個空缺，只是一次看工作那一端，一次看人那一端。
adjective · B2
Used about a job or duty that is hard work and brings you no thanks and no praise, even though it has to be done.
吃力不討好的
核心畫面
Think of the end of a piece of work, at the moment when a thank you would normally come - and it does not. Someone has carried the chairs, checked the forms, cooked the meal. The room goes quiet, people move on, and the words never arrive. This word names that missing thank you, and it can point at either end of it: the work that never gets one, or the person who never gives one.
可以想成一件事做完之後，本來該出現一句謝謝的那一刻——結果它沒有出現。有人把椅子搬好了、表格核對完了、飯煮好了。然後…更多收起
可以想成一件事做完之後，本來該出現一句謝謝的那一刻——結果它沒有出現。有人把椅子搬好了、表格核對完了、飯煮好了。然後場面安靜下來，大家各自走開，那句話始終沒來。這個字講的就是那句缺席的謝謝。而且它可以指向兩端：一端是永遠等不到謝謝的工作，另一端是永遠不說謝謝的人。From the word’s history
The packet records it as Middle English thankles, thank + -less: without thanks, which is the picture itself.
資料來源把它記成中古英文 thankles，也就是 thank 加 -less，字面就是「沒有謝謝」，跟核心畫面完全一致。
Wiktionary etymology_text supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1007390681): From Middle English thankles, equivalent to thank + -less.
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