One picture holds all of these: a thick soft layer under a skin. Press the pad at the base of your thumb and it gives way. Cut open an aloe leaf and the inside is the same kind of soft and full. Fleshy says that layer is there, and that there is plenty of it.

可以想成「皮底下那一層又厚又軟的東西」。按一下大拇指根部,會陷下去;把蘆薈葉切開,裡面也是那種厚厚、軟軟、含著水的感覺。fleshy 在說的就是那一層存在,而且份量不少。不管是講人的手臂、講植物的葉子,還是講顏色像肉,畫面都回到同一層軟厚的肉。

From the word’s history

Recorded as Middle English fleisshy, equivalent to flesh + -y. The suffix does two jobs that both fit the picture: having a lot of it, and being like it.

字源記為中古英語 fleisshy,等於 flesh(肉)加上 -y。-y 在這裡有兩種作用,剛好對上兩邊的用法:一種是「有很多」,一種是「像…的」。

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