- 1發狂；暴怒失控（多半說 go berserk）
If someone goes berserk, they suddenly lose control and become wild with anger — shouting, hitting, smashing things. English almost always uses that little verb go with it: people go berserk; they do not often “berserk” as a plain verb. You hear it about a person who explodes in rage, and also, more loosely, about a crowd that cheers and jumps like mad. Though actually that second use is not really violent; speakers just mean “wild with feeling.” In games and old stories, a berserk (more often called a berserker) is a fighter who attacks in a mad rush, with no care for danger. Everyday talk is informal and colourful; careful writing may just say “he lost his temper.”
組成Borrowed from Old Norse berserkr, a warrior who fought in a frenzy, probably from bjǫrn (“bear”) + serkr (“coat, shirt”), for the bearskins those warriors wore. Bjǫrn may go back to an old root meaning “brown”; serkr to a root meaning “to bind, tie; thread.” Some people once said the first part was berr (“bare, naked”), for fighters with no armour, but that is now thought unlikely. The describing word in English comes from that noun. Doublet of berserker.
同家族的字
- berserkera doublet: the same Old Norse warrior-word, kept in a longer English shape
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berserknoun/ˈbɜːsɜːk/
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historicalSynonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”).
- She had heard of his profligacy, his bursts of fierce Berserk-madness; and yet now these very faults, instead of repelling, seemed to attract her, and intensify her longing to save him.
- The Professor, with his face flushed, his nostrils dilated, and his beard bristling, was now in a proper Berserk mood.
berserkadj/ˈbɜːsɜːk/
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Furiously, injuriously, or maniacally violent or out of control.
- After seeing his sister stabbed to death, he went berserk and attacked the killer like a wild animal.
- 'You went Berserk. I've read all about it in Hypatia.' […] 'You've gone Berserk and pretty soon you'll go to sleep. But you'll probably be liable to fits of it all your life,' Beetle concluded.
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Bizarre; weird.
- [T]he writer conjured up a dystopian fantasy more berserk than anything you might find yourself listening to in the small hours at the Stone Circle.
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raredialectalslangWildly joyous; ecstatic.
- In amongst the strife, Scott McTominay, whose stoppage-time winner against Israel sent Hampden berserk, and Ryan Christie offered signs of an attacking pulse.
berserkverb/ˈbɜːsɜːk/
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To be or become berserk.
- When great champions went berserking and were angry, they lost their human nature and went mad like dogs.
- I suppose losing one hand made Stack especially sensitive to the possible loss of another. The wound was superficial, but he berserked. He killed the native with a riot gun, then turned it on the rest of them. A lieutenant had to bludgeon him into unconsciousness before he could be stopped.
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To make berserk.
- He neither knows himself nor his outriders; he berserks a fearful dimension and dismounts, miraculously, in bed!
- O holy Virgin, whereabout / Were you when all the swinish rout / Berserked the town? Those legions of the dead / Move only at the lash of lust. / Pray for us, or we die to trust— / Charred matchwood cursing Christ, who also bled.
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