Picture a bar of iron pushed into a fire. For a while nothing shows. Then the metal starts to give off its own light, and the first colour it gives is red. That red is not paint and not a description of the object — it is the heat becoming visible, the moment when the thing announces itself and you step back without being told. Every other use of red-hot borrows that moment and puts it somewhere else: on a plate too hot to hold, on a team that cannot stop winning, on a rush of anger you can feel in your face.
可以想成一根鐵條被推進火裡。一開始什麼都看不出來。接著金屬開始自己發光，而最先亮起來的顏色就是紅色。那個紅不是塗上去的，也不是在描述這個東西長什麼樣子——它是熱度變成看得見的樣子，是那個東西自己出聲的一刻，你不用別人講也會往後退一步。red-hot 其他的用法，都像是把這一刻借走，貼到別的地方：貼在燙得拿不住的盤子上，貼在停不下來的連勝隊伍上，貼在一股衝上臉的怒氣上。
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