Picture something going quietly on while a knock at the door, a drill, a piece of bad news waits just outside the frame and never gets in. The word is built on un-, so it is always naming an absence: the that could have arrived did not. That is why an undisturbed morning is worth mentioning at all. Point the picture at a room and nothing has been moved; point it at a person and nothing has shaken them.
可以想成一件事安安靜靜地進行著，而門上的敲門聲、電鑽聲、一個壞消息，就停在畫面外面，始終沒有進來。這個字的骨架是 un-，所以它一直在說「沒有發生的事」：本來可能來的打擾沒有來。正因為這樣，一個 undisturbed 的早上才值得特別講出來。把這個畫面對著房間，就是沒有人動過；對著一個人，就是沒有什麼動搖得了他。
From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the word as un- + disturbed, so the negative prefix is doing all the work the core image describes.
來源寫的是 un- 加 disturbed。也就是說，把「被打擾、被翻動」整個翻成反面。核心畫面裡那個「打擾沒有進來」的感覺，就是這個前綴直接給的。
Wiktionary entry for undisturbed, supplied in this batch's evidence packet: From un- + disturbed.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。