Someone walked away and never came back. Whatever was left behind — a building, a piece of land, a job that needed doing — is still sitting there with nobody looking after it. The word points at the state things fall into afterwards, more than at the moment of walking away.
可以想成有人轉身走掉，從此沒有再回來。留在那裡的東西——一棟房子、一塊地、一件該做的事——就這樣擱著，沒有人管。dereliction 說的比較像是「被丟下之後的那個狀態」，而不是丟下的那一瞬間。所以它可以指一整片長草的舊廠區，也可以指一個沒人去站的崗位。
From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary etymology gives Latin derelinquo 'to neglect, abandon', built from de- + re- + linquo 'to leave'. The core idea of leaving something behind is already in the root, and both modern uses sit on top of it.
來源記錄的字源是拉丁文 dērelinquō「丟下、不管」，由 dē- + re- + linquō（離開、留下）組成。「離開、把東西留在原地」這個意思本來就在字根裡，今天的兩個用法都長在上面。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1112547275)
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