Picture an old standing silent by the road. The rider swings out a short metal lever near one foot, stands up a little, and stamps down hard. One sharp push, and an engine that was dead is running. Hold that picture and the whole word is in it: a single shove that turns something still into something moving. The push lasts a second; what it starts keeps going by itself. That is why the same word can name the lever, the stamp of the foot, and the small event that gets a stalled plan moving again.

可以想成一台熄火的舊機車停在路邊。騎士把腳邊那根小鐵桿撥出來,稍微站起身,用力往下一踩。就那一下,剛才還安靜的引擎轟一聲活了過來。這個畫面大概就裝得下這個字的全部:短短一下用力的推,讓靜止的東西開始動。推的時間很短,被推動的東西之後自己跑。所以同一個字可以指那根桿子、指腳踩的動作,也可以指讓一個卡住的計畫重新開始的那件小事。

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