喜樂美語

You can hold mad as a mind that has slipped its normal track — reason gone, control gone, the inner steering wheel no longer answering. From that one picture everything fans out: a mind tipped off course becomes 'mentally ill' (the oldest use), then 'crazy / very foolish', then the heat of anger, then wild speed, then a love so strong it feels out of control. The thread running through all of them is: not held in by normal limits.

可以把 mad 想成一顆脫離了正常軌道的腦袋——理智不見了、控制不見了，心裡那個方向盤再也轉不動了。所有意思都從這個畫面散開：腦袋偏離軌道就是『精神失常』（最老的用法），再轉成『瘋的、很蠢的』，再轉成怒火上頭的『生氣』，再轉成失控的狂亂速度，最後轉成強到像失控的『超愛』。貫穿這一切的那條線是：沒被正常的界線管住。

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原始詞典資料21 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。

Madname詞源 1

  • 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Madeline (and its variants).

    • Mad, your boyfriend did a really shitty thing. In response, you got rat-faced and kissed someone.

madadj詞源 1/ˈmæd/

  • 1

    Insane; crazy; mentally deranged.

    • You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
    • He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.
  • 2

    informalAngry; annoyed.

    • Are you mad at me?
    • And I punished them oft in euery Synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them euen vnto strange cities.
  • 3

    informalUsed litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.

    • Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.
    • I'm not mad at this little house, though.
  • 4

    informalBizarre; incredible.

    • It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.
  • 5

    Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.

  • 6

    Wildly confused or excited.

    • to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred
    • It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
  • 7

    Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.

    • Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
    • My wife is soccer-mad.
  • 8

    Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.

    • a mad dog
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangIntensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much, excellent or many.

    • I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets. Their lead guitarist has mad skills. There are always mad girls at those parties.
  • 10

    Having impaired polarity.

madadv詞源 1/ˈmæd/

  • 1

    dialectalslangIntensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.

    • He was driving mad slow.
    • It's mad hot today.

madverb詞源 2/ˈmæd/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo be or become mad.

    • The imperial Elizabetta gazed with surprise at the youthful and unpretending appearance of the little being that had set the world madding.
  • 2

    To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

    • This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
    • He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […].

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