Picture a line of runners, and one of them out in front. The speed they choose becomes everyone's speed — the people behind stop deciding for themselves and work from that. Every use of this word keeps that shape: one at the front, a field behind, and a speed the front one is setting.
可以想成一排跑者,其中一個跑在最前面。他選的速度,就變成所有人的速度——後面的人不再自己抓快慢,而是照著他調整。這個字的每一個用法都保留這個形狀:前面一個,後面一群,速度由前面那個定下來。差別只在「速度」指的是真的跑多快,還是比賽的分數、或整個行業的做法。
From the word’s history
From pace + setter: the one who sets the pace.
字源資料說它由 pace(速度、步調)加 setter(定下某件事的人)組成,字面就是「定速度的人」。核心畫面等於字面,其他意思都是把「速度」換成別的東西。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract) 'pacesetter': "From pace + setter."
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