核心畫面

Picture a sheet of paper. You can go left and right on it, and up and down on it, and that is the whole of it. Nothing rises towards you, and there is nowhere to step in behind the surface. Everything this word covers comes back to that: a shape with no thickness, and a person in a story with nothing behind the face they show you.

可以想成一張紙。你能在上面左右走,也能上下走,就這樣而已。沒有東西往你這邊凸起來,也沒有地方可以繞到表面後面去。這個更多收起可以想成一張紙。你能在上面左右走,也能上下走,就這樣而已。沒有東西往你這邊凸起來,也沒有地方可以繞到表面後面去。這個字的兩個用法,都回到這張紙:一個是沒有厚度的形狀,一個是故事裡沒有內在的人。

Two branches

形狀與畫面:只有長和寬

這一組就是核心畫面本身:東西真的只有兩個方向,第三個方向不存在。

adjective · B1

Flat: having length and width but no depth. A two-dimensional shape, picture or map lies on a surface, so no part of it comes out towards you or goes back away from you.

平面的;二維的

故事裡的人:只有一個面

同一張紙的畫面搬到人身上。角色沒有厚度可以走進去,你看到的表面就是全部。這是把「沒有深度」從形狀借去講寫作,屬於觀念上的延伸,不是兩個不同來源的字。

adjective · B2

Used about a person in a book, film or play who does not feel like a real person, because the writer gives them only one simple side and nothing going on inside them.

(角色)扁平的、不像真人