Picture something with the volume turned up too high. A person walks in talking loudly and does not notice the room. A wall is painted a yellow you can see from the bus stop. A decision gets made before anyone can say wait. Brash is that feeling of too much, too fast, with no soft edges — and the person using the word usually does not like what they are looking at.

brash 可以想成「音量被轉到最大」的那種感覺。有人一進門就講得很大聲,沒察覺房間裡的氣氛。有面牆漆成從公車站就看得到的黃。有個決定在別人來得及說「等一下」之前就做完了。這三件事在英文裡共用同一個字:太多、太快、沒有柔和的邊。而說這個字的人,通常不太欣賞眼前的東西。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary marks the origin as uncertain, and offers a possible link to Scots brash, meaning a violent onset or an attack, with a further family resemblance to German barsch and Danish barsk, both meaning harsh or rough.

維基詞典說這個字的來源並不確定。它提出一種可能:來自蘇格蘭語的 brash(猛烈的衝撞、攻擊),並且可能跟德語 barsch、丹麥語 barsk(粗硬、不客氣)同一家。因為來源本身就標著「不確定」,所以這只是一條參考線索,不是定論。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract, etymology_text supplied in this packet: kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:327527048)

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