One way to hold this word: picture a tube with one end left open. Something has been started, but nobody has put a cap on the far end. Whatever comes out of that opening is allowed to keep coming — as far as it wants, for as long as it wants. Every use of open-ended is about which end was left uncapped.
open-ended 可以想成一根管子,只有一端封起來,另一端就那樣開著。事情有起點,但沒有人先去把遠的那一頭封住。所以東西可以一直從那個開口跑出來:要跑多遠、跑到什麼時候,都還沒被決定。這個字的每一種用法,差別只在「開著的是哪一端」。
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