Picture a table where everything has been tipped together and nobody has sorted it: letters on top of tools, this year's things beside last year's. No sieve, no sorting, no choosing. Every use of this word comes back to that table — something that should have been separated out simply was not.
可以想成一張桌子,東西全被倒在一起,沒有人整理過:信壓在工具上,今年的東西和去年的混著放。沒有篩子,沒有分類,也沒有挑選。這個字的每一種用法都可以繞回這張桌子——本來該分開的,就是沒分開。分不分開,是這個字唯一在講的事。
From the word’s history
From Latin prōmiscuus 'mixed, not separated', from prō- 'forth' + misceō 'mix'.
來自拉丁文 prōmiscuus(混合的、沒有分開的),由 prō-(向前)加 misceō(混合)組成。所以「混而不分」是這個字最底層的意思,其他用法都是這個畫面用在不同地方。
Wiktionary entry for promiscuous, etymology_text supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:815170598)
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