強到眼睛用不上
最字面的一支：擋住視線的東西就在眼前，而且是真的東西——光、雨、雪、熱、眼淚，甚至是黑。
adjective · B2
So strong that it stops you seeing properly at that moment — usually a very bright light, but also heavy rain or snow, hard heat, tears in your eyes, or even complete darkness.
刺眼的
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: something arrives that is too strong to take in, and for as long as it is there, everything else disappears. The first picture is a light you cannot look at — the sun off water, a camera flash, headlights on a wet road. Notice what the word is really about. Not brightness, but the moment of not seeing: heavy rain, thick snow and even complete darkness are called blinding too, because they do the same job to the eyes. From there the word moves inward. Pain can fill a head that way; a feeling can fill a person that way; an idea can switch on like a lamp in a dark room and leave nothing hidden. And in relaxed British speech the same too-much-to-look-at feeling turns into praise.
blinding 可以想成「有個東西強到吃不下，在它還在的那段時間裡，別的都不見了」。最先的畫面是一道看不了的光：水…更多收起
blinding 可以想成「有個東西強到吃不下，在它還在的那段時間裡，別的都不見了」。最先的畫面是一道看不了的光：水面上的太陽、相機閃光、濕路上的車燈。但要注意這個字真正在講的地方。不是亮，而是那一下看不見——所以大雨、大雪，甚至全然的黑，一樣可以叫 blinding，因為它們對眼睛做的是同一件事。接著這個畫面往人裡面走：痛可以這樣塞滿一顆頭，情緒可以這樣塞滿一個人，而一個想法也可以像暗房裡的燈被打開，一次照出全部。到了英式口語裡，這種「強到移不開眼」就變成了稱讚。From the word’s history
Wiktionary's surface analysis is blind + -ing — the -ing form of the verb blind. That is why every branch still carries the same moment: something is in the way, and seeing stops.
Wiktionary 對這個字的拆解就是 blind 加 -ing，也就是動詞 blind 的 -ing 形。這條線索解釋了為什麼每一個分支都還留著同一個瞬間：有東西擋在前面，於是看不見了。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract in this packet, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1279594476; etymology_text: "By surface analysis, blind + -ing.")
Four branches
強到腦袋用不上
同一個「擋住」的動作，換成擋在人裡面。被擋住的不再是視線，而是判斷和注意力。
adjective · C1
Used about a feeling that is so strong that, while it lasts, a person cannot think clearly or notice anything outside it.
沖昏頭的
像燈被打開的那一下明白
這一支翻轉了前面的方向：同樣是強光，但這次光不是擋住視線，而是一次照出全部。
adjective · C1
Used before words like clarity, realization, revelation or flash of inspiration, to say that an understanding arrived all at once and left no doubt behind it.
恍然大悟
好到移不開眼（英式口語）
同樣是「強到看不了」，但講的人是在稱讚。英國口語把那種吃不消的強度，直接拿來當「太棒了」。
adjective · C1
Very good and very enjoyable.
超讚的
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
blindingadj/ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
- 1
Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
- On it came, and with it came the glorious blinding cloud of many-coloured light, and stood before us for a space, turning, as it seemed to us, slowly round and round, and then, accompanied by its attendant pomp of sound, passed away I know not whither.
- 2
Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
- blinding tears; blinding snow
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- 3
slangBrilliant; marvellous.
- “How’s it going?” “Blinding, mate.”
blindingadv/ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
- 1
To an extreme degree; blindingly.
- certain 'details' of 'scientifically realized socialism' became blinding obvious
- He made the basket on his second attempt, after an exchange of moves so blinding fast that Derek could barely distinguish them.
blindingnoun/ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
- 1
The act of causing blindness.
- 2
A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
- 3
A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。