核心畫面

One way to hold tidewater: the sea quietly arriving inland. Twice a day it slides up the creeks and over the flat ground, and then it goes back out. The word starts on that water, and then moves onto everything the water touches.

tidewater 可以想成海水安靜地走進內陸。一天兩次,它沿著河汊往上灌,漫過平坦的低地,再退回去。這個字最早落在更多收起tidewater 可以想成海水安靜地走進內陸。一天兩次,它沿著河汊往上灌,漫過平坦的低地,再退回去。這個字最早落在那些水上。之後它慢慢往外移:先是被水淹到的那片地,再來是那片地上長出來的房子樣式。所以「水—地—屋」是同一條線,順著走就不會亂。

From the word’s history

The supplied Wiktionary entry gives it plainly as tide + water.

封包裡的 Wiktionary 只寫了一句:tide 加 water。兩個字疊起來就是「潮的水」,字面看得懂,不必另外記。

Wiktionary entry supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:726610008): "From tide + water."

Two branches

潮水本身

這一家就是核心畫面本身:漲上來的那些水。

noun · B2

The water that comes in from the sea when the tide rises, spreading over low land and pushing up into rivers. It is uncountable, so you say tidewater, not a tidewater.

潮水

潮水到得了的那片地

水的名字被拿來叫水所到的地方。潮水每天來一趟,久了那一帶就直接叫它的名字。

noun · C1

In American English, the low land at or near the coast that the tide reaches — the coastal strip, together with the rivers and creeks running through it. It is countable here: the tidewater of a state or region.

沿海低地