Think of a lion's roar, then let it run on and on instead of stopping. Roaring can be pictured as something big going at full power, with the noise coming off it: wind against a window, a river after rain, an engine on a hill, a stadium full of people, a fire pulling air into itself. Nothing is holding back, and you can hear that. Once English had that picture, it stopped needing the actual noise. A stall that sells out in an hour, a show everyone is still talking about, a night out that went as far as it could go — these get called roaring too, because full power is the part that carried over.
From the word’s history
Roaring is roar plus -ing, the verb form used as a describing word: the thing that is roaring.
「roaring」就是 roar 加上 -ing，把動詞變成形容詞：正在吼的那個。所以聲音是它的起點，其他意思都是從這裡走出去的。
Wiktionary (local kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1140719345), etymology_text: 'By surface analysis, roar + -ing.'
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原始詞典資料5 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。
roaringadj/ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/
- 1
informalIntensive; extreme.
- “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
- 2
Very successful; lively.
- The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.
- But finally we came to a river with hundreds of boats upon it, and there was a magnificent bridge, and on the other bank was a roaring city, and through the fog the rain came down thick as the tears of the angels. "That 's London," said I.
roaringnoun/ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/
- 1
A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
- […] those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.
- 2
An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.
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。