Picture something that does not stop at your nose or your ears but goes straight up to your head — a smell so rich the room seems to tilt a little. That is the movement inside heady: something strong arrives, and your head is where you feel it. A perfume does it, a wonderful few weeks do it, a line on a chart climbing too fast does it, and so does an idea heavy enough to make you stop and think.
可以想成一個東西沒有停在鼻子或耳朵,而是一路衝上你的腦門——香味濃到整個房間好像斜了一點。heady 裡面就是這個動作:有很強的東西進來,而你是用「頭」感覺到它。一瓶香水會這樣,一段太過癮的日子會這樣,一條漲得太快的曲線會這樣,一個重到讓你停下來想的想法也會這樣。
From the word’s history
Middle English hedi, simply head plus the ending -y. The head has been in the word from the start.
中古英文寫作 hedi,就是 head(頭)加上形容詞字尾 -y。這個字從一開始,重點就落在「頭」上。
Wiktionary entry for heady, etymology section "From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head + -y." (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:886594900), supplied in the evidence packet
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