棱镜是美国DC漫画旗下的超级英雄，她的英文名叫 Prysm。
捕捉和释放光线是棱镜的超能力之一，她的英文名源自单词 prism /'prɪzəm/。
prism 一词源自希腊语 πρίσμα 指锯齿状的东西。17世纪，近代光学兴起，这个希腊语单词被用来指能够分解，切割光线的透明晶状体，最后演变成现义：棱镜。
词义
prism 有两种用法，一个是本义：
Newton split white light into its spectrum of colors by beaming it through a prism.
牛顿将一束白光穿过棱镜分解得到彩色光谱。
△In 1666, Isaac Newton's experiments revealed the mystery of light.
另一个为 prism 的引申义，喻指影响(通常为曲解)人看待问题的角度或媒介。
His misfortune in childhood left him with a fractured prism of mind.
不幸的童年带给他的只有心灵的支离破碎。
The allure of her newfound status and authority becomes a troublesome prism through which to view an unjust world. - Los Angeles Times
刚刚到手的地位和权利所带来的诱惑就像一个棱镜，扭曲了她看待这个世界的目光。-《洛杉矶时报》
相关
中文用"戴有色眼镜"来形容因个人主观色彩而对待人或事持有不公平的看法。
英文也有相同的表达：
look at someone / something through the glasses colored by ...
△Nymphomaniac (《女性瘾者》)
影视
△Bombshell (《爆炸新闻》2019)
△The Eye of the Storm (《风暴之眼》2021)
小说
He looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now. But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm.
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
他眺望着海面，发觉他此刻是多么孤单。但是他可以看见漆黑的海水深处的彩虹七色，面前伸展着的钓索和那平静的海面上的微妙波动。
- 欧内斯特·海明威《老人与海》
