叫不出名字的那個東西
這一族就是核心畫面本身：一個空缺，和一個專門拿來填空缺的字。差別只在空缺出現在手上，還是出現在黑板上的題目裡。
noun · B2
A small object or part whose name you cannot remember or never knew, used in speech while you point at the thing or hold it up.
那個小東西；那個零件
核心畫面
Picture a small thing in someone's hand that has no name. It clearly does something, it clearly belongs somewhere, and the word for it is simply gone. Widget is the sound English makes in that gap. Because it points at nothing in particular, it can be dropped into any gap of that shape — the part on the kitchen table, the product in a textbook factory, and later the little block on a screen.
可以想成手上有一個叫不出名字的小東西。它顯然有用途，也顯然是從哪裡掉下來的，只是名字就是想不起來。widget 就是…更多收起
可以想成手上有一個叫不出名字的小東西。它顯然有用途，也顯然是從哪裡掉下來的，只是名字就是想不起來。widget 就是英文在這個空缺裡發出的聲音。正因為它本身不指任何東西，它就能被塞進任何一個這種形狀的空缺——餐桌上那個零件、課本裡那間工廠生產的產品，後來還有螢幕上那一小塊。From the word’s history
The packet's source entry says the word was coined by the American playwright George S. Kaufman for his 1924 play Beggar on Horseback. A word invented for a stage product has no real referent to start with, which is exactly why it settles so easily into the empty-slot job the core image describes.
封包裡的字源資料寫著，這個字是美國劇作家 George S. Kaufman 為 1924 年的劇作 Beggar on Horseback 造出來的。一個為了舞台上的產品而發明的字，本來就沒有指涉對象，所以它特別適合核心畫面裡那個工作：站在空缺上，替任何東西頂一下。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet: coined by American playwright George S. Kaufman in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924) (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:626563289:16715).
Two branches
視窗上的小裝置
這一族在意思上跟前面互相呼應：都是一小塊、說不清楚全名、但就在那裡的東西。不過源頭不同，所以這裡是呼應，不是同一條血緣。
noun · B2
A small piece of software that sits on a phone screen, a computer desktop or a web page, shows you something such as the time, the weather or your next event, and lets you use or change it right there without opening the whole app.
小工具；桌面小程式