You can hold on to one small, soft, short sausage — the kind a child pushes onto a stick over a fire. It is little, it bends, it is cheap, and you never eat just one. Every other use of the word keeps some part of that picture. Aimed at a person it keeps the softness, and means someone who bends instead of standing firm. Used in card games it keeps the smallness and the number: one is nothing, a handful wins.

可以想成一根短短軟軟的小香腸,就是小孩插在樹枝上烤的那種。它很小、會彎、很便宜,而且從來不會只吃一根。這個字其他的用法,都還留著這張圖的一部分。用在人身上,留下的是「軟」——遇到事情就彎下去,不是站穩的那種人。用在卡牌遊戲,留下的是「小」跟「多」——一張不算什麼,一堆就能贏。這條線是方便記的說法,資料裡沒有給這個字的字源,所以不是在講歷史。

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