核心畫面

You can picture the same person twice. From Monday to Friday they are in ordinary clothes, at an ordinary job. Then the weekend comes and they put on the kit, and for two days they go at it as if a battle were waiting. Nothing about them has really changed except the calendar — the fight only fits in the days when work does not.

可以想成同一個人有兩個樣子。星期一到星期五,他穿著普通的衣服,做著普通的工作。週末一到,他換上裝備,兩天裡拚得像有一更多收起可以想成同一個人有兩個樣子。星期一到星期五,他穿著普通的衣服,做著普通的工作。週末一到,他換上裝備,兩天裡拚得像有一場仗在等他。真正改變的只有日曆——這個「上場」只塞得進沒有工作的那兩天。

From the word’s history

The source records the compound as weekend + warrior, first used around 1931 — the joke is right there in the two parts.

資料來源記載這個詞由 weekend(週末)加 warrior(戰士)組成,大約一九三一年開始使用。兩個部分拼在一起,那個玩笑式的畫面就已經成形了。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract) entry for weekend warrior: "From weekend + warrior. First use appears c. 1931."

One branch

只有週末才上場的人

兩個意思共用同一個畫面,差別只在「上場」是去哪裡。

noun · C1

Someone who spends weekends and holidays training with a part-time military force that is only called on when the regular forces need extra help; a reservist.

後備軍人、週末受訓的部隊成員