One way to hold this word: something arrives that is too strong to take in, and for as long as it is there, everything else disappears. The first picture is a light you cannot look at — the sun off water, a camera flash, headlights on a wet road. Notice what the word is really about. Not brightness, but the moment of not seeing: heavy rain, thick snow and even complete darkness are called blinding too, because they do the same job to the eyes. From there the word moves inward. Pain can fill a head that way; a feeling can fill a person that way; an idea can switch on like a lamp in a dark room and leave nothing hidden. And in relaxed British speech the same too-much-to-look-at feeling turns into praise.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary's surface analysis is blind + -ing — the -ing form of the verb blind. That is why every branch still carries the same moment: something is in the way, and seeing stops.
Wiktionary 對這個字的拆解就是 blind 加 -ing，也就是動詞 blind 的 -ing 形。這條線索解釋了為什麼每一個分支都還留著同一個瞬間：有東西擋在前面，於是看不見了。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract in this packet, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1279594476; etymology_text: "By surface analysis, blind + -ing.")
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
blindingadj/ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
- 1
Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
- On it came, and with it came the glorious blinding cloud of many-coloured light, and stood before us for a space, turning, as it seemed to us, slowly round and round, and then, accompanied by its attendant pomp of sound, passed away I know not whither.
- 2
Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
- blinding tears; blinding snow
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- 3
slangBrilliant; marvellous.
- “How’s it going?” “Blinding, mate.”
blindingadv/ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
- 1
To an extreme degree; blindingly.
- certain 'details' of 'scientifically realized socialism' became blinding obvious
- He made the basket on his second attempt, after an exchange of moves so blinding fast that Derek could barely distinguish them.
blindingnoun/ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
- 1
The act of causing blindness.
- 2
A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
- 3
A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。