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kairosclerosis /ˌkaɪ.roʊ.skləˈroʊ.sɪs/ 名词 n.
当代造词 coined · 英语 · 2012 English · 2012 · John Koenig · 未被词典收录 not in dictionaries

意识到「我现在很幸福」的那一刻——理智闻讯赶来鉴定它、拆解它、归档它,幸福随之慢慢硬化,只剩一点回味。 The moment you notice you're happy — and the noticing begins to harden it.

The moment you notice you're happy — and the noticing begins to harden it. 意识到「我现在很幸福」的那一刻——理智闻讯赶来鉴定它、拆解它、归档它,幸福随之慢慢硬化,只剩一点回味。

词源etymology

希腊语 kairós(时机——那种恰到好处、稍纵即逝的「正当此刻」, 与钟表时间 chronos 相对)+ sklḗrōsis(硬化——动脉硬化的那个硬化)。 构词即诊断:良辰的硬化症。最软的时刻,配上最硬的病理。

Greek kairós (the opportune moment — the fleeting “exactly now,” as against clock-time chronos) + sklḗrōsis (hardening — arteriosclerosis’s hardening). The compound is the diagnosis: sclerosis of the golden moment. The softest hour, filed under the hardest pathology.

背景the story

《晦涩悲伤词典》2012 年词条。定义(见引文)拍下了幸福的观察者效应: 幸福经不起注视——你一说「此刻真好」,理智就上前接管, 品味变成鉴定,鉴定变成归档,归档完只剩回味。

它与 ambedo 是一进一出:ambedo 是沉进感官、忘了自己; kairosclerosis 是想起自己、惊动了感官。自我意识这道门,进出都要过路费。

A 2012 Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows entry. The definition (quoted) photographs happiness’s observer effect: joy cannot bear inspection — say “this is good, right now,” and the intellect steps in to manage it; savoring becomes appraisal, appraisal becomes filing, and the file closes on an aftertaste.

It pairs with ambedo as entrance and exit: ambedo is sinking into the senses and forgetting yourself; kairosclerosis is remembering yourself and startling the senses. The door of self-awareness charges a toll both ways.

中文里的邻居neighbors in chinese

中文的警句站在对面那头:「身在福中不知福」骂的是没意识到幸福; 这个词补的恰是意识到的税——知福的那一刻,福开始漏。 「得意忘形」的「忘」字反而道破天机

「忘」着享,一「知」就硬。 苏轼「此心安处是吾乡」是心法级的解——安而不问,问则不安。

The Chinese maxims stand at the opposite end: 身在福中不知福 scolds you for not noticing your blessings; this word supplies the tax on noticing — the moment you know your luck, it starts to leak. The 忘 in 得意忘形 gives the secret away: fortune must be enjoyed forgetful, and hardens the instant it is known. Su Shi’s 此心安处是吾乡 is the master-level answer — at ease so long as you don’t ask.

引文 / 例句 quotations / examples
The moment you realize that you're currently happy — consciously trying to savor the feeling — which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it's little more than an aftertaste. 你意识到自己此刻正幸福的那个瞬间——你有意去品味这份感受,理智却因此被惊动:鉴定它、拆解它、放进上下文里;它就此慢慢溶解,直到只剩一点回味。(中译) John Koenig John Koenig · The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows · 2012
Perfect afternoon, third page of the book, and then the fatal thought — "I'm happy right now" — kairosclerosis, setting like plaster. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation
Photographing the sunset is applied kairosclerosis. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation
怎么用 how to use it

不在词典中。 非正式与创意写作;写度假的最后一个下午、写「拍照代替体验」的时代病, 它是那声快门的学名。

Not in any dictionary. Informal and creative writing; for the vacation’s last afternoon and the photograph-instead-of-experience disease — it is the shutter-click’s Latin name.

无以名状 · 时间与流逝 the unnameable · time & passing

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