核心畫面

Picture a long flat stick whose length never changes. You do not use it by looking at it; you use it by laying it beside something else. The stick itself is not interesting — what it gives you is an answer about the other thing. That is the whole idea: a fixed length you hold up against whatever you want to judge.

可以想成一根長長扁扁、長度永遠不變的木尺。它的用法不是拿來看,而是拿來「靠上去」:把它貼著別的東西,才知道那個東西有更多收起可以想成一根長長扁扁、長度永遠不變的木尺。它的用法不是拿來看,而是拿來「靠上去」:把它貼著別的東西,才知道那個東西有多長。尺本身不重要,重要的是它替你回答了關於別的東西的問題。這就是整個字的畫面——一段固定不變的長度,用來靠在你想判斷的東西旁邊。