Hold the shape first: something round, full on every side, with no flat patch and no dent in it. English lends that shape out. It puts it on a body, on a person, and on a course of study or a working life. Wherever it lands, the praise is the same one — full all the way round, nothing missing on any side. Notice what it never says: it says nothing about how high any one side reaches.

先抓住形狀:一個圓的東西,每一面都撐得飽飽的,沒有哪裡是平的、凹的。英文把這個形狀借出去用。它借去形容身材,也借去形容一個人,還借去形容一段學習或工作的經歷。不管放在哪裡,誇的都是同一件事——每一面都滿,沒有哪一邊缺一塊。也要注意它從來沒說的部分:它完全不管某一面長得多高。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。