Picture a pot at a full boil. The surface never rests: it lifts, turns over, throws up white bubbles, and lifts again. Nothing escapes the pot, but nothing inside it is still either. That churning surface is what seethe holds on to. Move the pot into a person's chest and you get anger so strong it will not settle, though the face above it may show nothing. Look down on a night market or a nest of ants and you see the same surface turning over, this time made of bodies instead of water.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary derives seethe from Old English seothan, to boil or cook, alongside German sieden and Dutch zieden. The boiling pot is not a metaphor we added afterwards; it is where the word began.
Wiktionary 記錄 seethe 來自古英文 sēoþan「煮沸、烹煮」，德文 sieden、荷蘭文 zieden 是同一家族。所以那鍋滾水不是後來加上去的比喻，而是這個字一開始就在講的事。
Wiktionary entry for seethe (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1061451686), etymology_text supplied in this packet
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原始詞典資料10 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。
seetheverb/siːð/
- 1
Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
- [W]hen a pot ſeetheth, if we lade it and moove the liquor up and down, even while it ſeetheth, we ſhall make it quiet.
- Deep Hell! that seethest in thy simmering pit; / Thy thousand throned horrors shall not vie, / Or ever compass it!
- 2
Of a liquid, vapor, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
- My bowels ſeeth wͪ in me ⁊ take no reſt, for yͤ dayes of my trouble are come vpõ me.
- I obſerue our Ducheſſe / Is ſicke a dayes, ſhe puykes, her ſtomacke ſeethes, […]
- 3
Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others.
- I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's.
- [F]or them alone did seethe / A thousand men in troubles wide and dark: […]
- 4
Of a place: to be filled with many people or things moving about actively; to buzz with activity; also, of people or things: to move about actively in a crowd or group.
- Shock Box was the skankiest bar in Hasted, complete with a cheesy jukebox, cheap pints, and a sweaty club in the basement that seethed every weekend with a superhorny boarding-school crowd.
- 5
Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest.
- "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
- 6
archaicTo overboil (something) so that it loses its flavour or texture; hence (figurative), to cause (the body, the mind, the spirit, etc.) to become dull through too much alcoholic drink or heat.
- Yee come t'encounter vvith a valiant Foe; / […] ſuch as ſhrinke not / To haue their bloods ſod vvith the dog-dayes heate, / Nor to be crudled vvith cold Saturnes Rod: […]
- [F]oorthvvith her eyes bred her eye-ſore, the firſt vvhite vvhereon their tranſpiercing arrovves ſtuck, being the breathleſſe corps of Leander: vvith the ſodaine contemplation of this piteous ſpectacle of her loue, ſodden to haddocks meate, her ſorrovve could not chooſe but be indefinite, […]
- 7
archaicTo soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep.
- 8
obsoleteTo boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling.
- Iacob ſod potage ⁊ Eſau came from the feld ⁊ was faine […]
- When we had paſſed againe the line, and were come to the third degree, or ſomewhat more, we ſawe crabs ſwimming on the water that were red as though they had bene ſodden, but this was no signe of land.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoletemedicinephysiologysciencesOf the stomach: to digest (food).
- Elixation is the ſeething of meat in the ſtomack, by the ſaid naturall heat, as meat is boyled in a pot; […]
seethenoun/siːð/
- 1
A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.
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。