核心畫面

Picture a wall of water the width of a whole shore, moving in fast and not stopping at the beach. You cannot stand against it and you cannot get behind it; whatever is in front of it goes with it. Every use of these two words keeps that one picture — the water, the size, and the fact that it arrives all at once.

這個詞的畫面可以想成:一整排海那麼寬的水牆往岸上推,到了沙灘也不停。人站不住,也躲不到它後面。擋在前面的東西只能被帶更多收起這個詞的畫面可以想成:一整排海那麼寬的水牆往岸上推,到了沙灘也不停。人站不住,也躲不到它後面。擋在前面的東西只能被帶著走。三個意思都留著這同一個畫面:水很多、來得很快、擋不住。差別只在那面水是真的海水,還是訊息、情緒和人潮。

Two branches

真正的海水

這一族就是核心畫面本身,只是一個講災難,一個講天天發生的自然現象。

noun · B2

A very large wave that comes in from the sea, flows over the land and destroys what is in its way; also used of a sudden wall of water from a storm or a swollen river.

巨浪、海嘯

比喻的浪潮

水抽走了,形狀留下來:量大、來得快、擋不住。

noun · B2

A very large amount of one kind of feeling, behaviour or activity, all arriving at the same time and too strong to hold back.

浪潮、排山倒海而來