核心畫面

Picture a pen going forward, stopping, cutting back the other way, then cutting back again — sharp corners, never curves. Line up those corners and you get a row of Z shapes. Every use of zigzag can be thought of as that same shape, seen either as a line, as a way of moving, or as a description of something.

可以想成一支筆往前走,忽然折回另一邊,再折回來——轉角是尖的,不是圓弧。把這些轉角接起來,看起來就像一排 Z。zig更多收起可以想成一支筆往前走,忽然折回另一邊,再折回來——轉角是尖的,不是圓弧。把這些轉角接起來,看起來就像一排 Z。zigzag 的每一種用法,都像是同一個形狀換一個角度看:它可以是那條線本身,可以是「這樣移動」,也可以是拿來形容東西的樣子。中文的「之字形」抓的是同一個畫面,只是換成「之」的筆畫。