One way to picture mood: the weather inside a person right now — it can change by the afternoon, and everything you do passes through it. The same word covers the weather a place or a film gives off. The grammar sense is a different word that happens to be spelled the same.
From the word’s history
Two unrelated words share this spelling. The feeling sense is from Old English mod 'heart, frame of mind, spirit; courage'; the grammatical sense (1570s) is an alteration of mode, from Latin modus 'measure, manner, way'. Etymonline notes plainly that 'the two moods have no etymological relationship'.
同一個拼法底下其實有兩個沒有親戚關係的字。表示心情的 mood 來自古英語 mod（心、心境、勇氣）；文法上的 mood（1570 年代）則是 mode 的變體，源自拉丁文 modus「尺度、方式」。Etymonline 直接寫明：這兩個 mood 之間沒有任何字源上的關聯。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com/word/mood)
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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。
moodnoun詞源 1/muːd/
- 1
A mental or emotional state, composure.
- I've been in a bad mood since I was dumped by my ex-boyfriend.
- Nor these alone, but every landscape fair, / As fit for every mood of mind, / Or gay, or grave, or sweet, or stern, was there / Not less than truth design'd.
- 2
Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
- Whatever the mood of her music, funky or romantic, upbeat or blue, sophisticated or simple, her fans get the message. And as long as the word comes from Natalie, they adore it, turning every one of her albums to gold or platinum.
- 3
A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
- He's in a mood with me today.
- He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.
- 4
A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
- I'm not in the mood for running today.
- Paul: Shield practice? Gurney, we had shield practice this morning. I'm not in the mood. Gurney: Not in the mood? Mood's a thing for cattle and loveplay, not fighting.
- 5
A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
- A good politician senses the mood of the crowd.
- This was the mood that led him to deny to Mainstream, the successor to the New Masses , permission to reprint “Reading, Writing, and the Rackets.” This was the mood that, when he was invited to a meeting to draft a letter of protest […]
- 6
slangA familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
- “I'm only here for a night. I'm road tripping with a friend and he decided we needed a queer bar, stat.” “Oh, that's a whole mood.”
- To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.
moodintj詞源 1/muːd/
- 1
slangUsed to express that the speaker finds something very relatable.
- —I am feeling very exhausted today. —Mood.
- I mean, mood. Courteney Cox showing Kimmel her completely empty pantry over Zoom while explaining that her family is snacking more than usual is relatable content.
moodnoun詞源 2/muːd/
- 1
grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
- The mood most frequently encountered in English is the indicative, of which the mood in this sentence is an example.
- The grammatical category of mood makes it possible for speakers to signal their attitude to what they are saying, in particular to indicate whether what they are saying is to be understood as a fact, a possibility or a command. The different moods of the verb are shown by special endings or forms. German has three moods: […]
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