身體縮一下
最貼著核心畫面的一族。痛或刺激直接落在身上，反應也留在身上：臉一皺、人一退。這一族包含動詞和把那一下抽出來命名的名詞。
verb · B2
To suddenly change the expression on your face, and often pull back a little, because something hurts or upsets you.
（痛得）臉一皺、身體一縮
核心畫面
Think of a body that folds for half a second. Something sharp arrives — a needle, a of metal, a sentence you did not want read out — and before you can decide anything, the face tightens and you pull back a little. Then it is over. Everything this word does grows out of that half-second: it can stay in the body, it can happen only inside your head, and it can be lifted out and named as a thing.
可以想成一個身體折了半秒。有個尖銳的東西來了——一根針、金屬刮過的聲音、一句你不想被念出來的話——你還來不及決定，臉…更多收起
可以想成一個身體折了半秒。有個尖銳的東西來了——一根針、金屬刮過的聲音、一句你不想被念出來的話——你還來不及決定，臉就縮緊了，人往後退一點。然後就過去了。這個字的各種用法，都像是從這半秒長出來的：可以留在身體上，可以只發生在腦子裡，也可以被抽出來當成一個東西來講。From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces wince to Middle English wyncen, from Anglo-Norman winchir, from Frankish *wankjan, related to a root meaning 'to flex, bend' (compare German winken). The bending is still the picture: the body folds for a moment.
Wiktionary 把 wince 追到中古英文 wyncen，再到盎格魯－諾曼語 winchir、法蘭克語 *wankjan，跟「彎、折」的字根有關（可以對照德文 winken）。那個「折」到現在還是這個字的畫面：身體折一下。
Wiktionary entry 'wince' (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:849533762): 'From Middle English wyncen, from Anglo-Norman winchir... from Frankish *wankjan, related to *winkijan (to flex, bend).'
Two branches
心裡縮一下
同樣的半秒，只是那根針換成了一個念頭。身體沒有受傷，難受的是記憶或當下的尷尬。
verb · B2
To suddenly feel very uncomfortable or embarrassed about something that is happening, or about something you remember.
（尷尬、難受得）心裡一縮