看火車、記車號的興趣
畫面本身,從裡面看:等待、認出、寫下來。
noun · B2
Someone who watches trains as a hobby and writes down the numbers of the railway engines they have seen.
鐵道迷;記車號的人
You can picture one person at the far end of a platform, notebook open, waiting hours for an engine to pass so that a number can go on a list. Both meanings of the word live in that picture: the patient hobby, and the way other people describe someone who cares about a detail nobody else can see the point of.
train + spotter, where spotter is spot ('to see and recognise') plus -er. Longman labels the bird/train etc spotter pattern British English.
這個字是 train 加 spotter。spotter 來自 spot(看見、認出來)加上 -er(做這件事的人)。所以字面上就是「把火車認出來的人」。Longman 在 spotter 那一條把 bird/train etc spotter 這個說法標成英式英語。
LDOCE spotter sense 1 (lexunit 'bird/train etc spotter', British English) and the Wiktionary spot + -er etymology, both supplied in this packet.
Two branches
看火車、記車號的興趣
畫面本身,從裡面看:等待、認出、寫下來。
noun · B2
Someone who watches trains as a hobby and writes down the numbers of the railway engines they have seen.
鐵道迷;記車號的人
旁人眼中的「細節控」
同一個畫面,從外面看:一個人為了一個編號站了三小時,旁人覺得「這有什麼意義?」那份不解,就被借去形容任何鑽在小細節裡的人。
noun · B2
A person you find boring because they care only about small details that seem unimportant to everyone else.
只在乎瑣碎細節的無趣之人