- 1苦悶；焦慮（偏人生、未來不知如何是好的那種重擔，不是單純害怕）
Angst is a heavy mix of worry and unhappiness about your life, your future, or what you should do. It is not a small scare, and it is not the same as being angry. It sits deeper: a feeling that you cannot see a clear way, and it will not leave your chest. English borrowed the word from German Angst (and from Danish angst). For a long time it was written with a capital A, like the German word; people started writing it with a small a around the 1940s. It first showed up in English when people were translating a Danish , Kierkegaard, so it sounded like a philosophy word. Though actually, most people who say it now are not in a philosophy class. Parents talk about teen angst: that stretch when a young person is miserable about everything and not sure who they are. Writers and singers use it too. It is a noun: a lot of angst, full of angst. Some people also use it as a casual verb — stop angsting about it — but that is , not for a careful essay. Friends may use it with a half-smile, as if the feeling is a bit of a performance; used about real pain, it can sound cold. People stretch it as a joke too (Monday angst, first-world angst), making a big word do a small job.
組成Borrowed from German Angst or Danish angst (from older German angest / angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz). English first met it in the 1800s in translations of Kierkegaard; the small-a spelling is later, around 1940–44.
原始詞典資料4 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。
angstnoun/ˈæŋ(k)st/
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Emotional turmoil; painful sadness; anguish.
- I've begun to regret that we'd ever met / Between the dimensions. / It gets such a strain to pretend that the change / Is anything but cheap. / With your infant pique and your angst pretensions / Sometimes you act like such a creep.
- Harry's adolescence is theatrical and gaudy, and many of its key scenes have a lurid and camp quality that is appropriate to the exaggerated mood-shifting and self-dramatizing of teen angst.
- 2
A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
- 3
Fiction focusing on characters experiencing strong emotions and conflicts with other characters.
- General: a story with a general theme. It is neither romance or angst but may incorporate elements of all other genres.
- Fans prefer fluff to other types of fic. But angst (dramatic stories where characters have a wide range of emotions, including ... angsty ones) comes in a close second.
angstverb/ˈæŋ(k)st/
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informalTo suffer angst; to fret.
- In the second scene, the camera switches to the father listening, angsting, dying inside, but saying nothing.
- She'd never angsted so much about her head as she had in the past twenty-four hours. Why the hell hadn't she just left it alone?
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。