Picture one bar under the driver's hand. Push it, and the car changes gear because you told it to. Everything this phrase means grows out of that single bar: first the part itself, then the whole car that is defined by having one.

可以想成駕駛手邊的那一根桿子。你推它,車子就換檔——換檔的決定在你手上,不在車子手上。這個詞的兩個意思都從這根桿子長出來:先是桿子本身,再來是「裝了這根桿子的整台車」。

One branch

那根桿子,和裝了它的車

登入就可以看這一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

gear lever · noun · B1

The bar between or beside the front seats of a car that the driver moves by hand to change from one gear to another.

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