核心畫面

Picture a windy night. The wind does not push steadily; it arrives in bursts, bangs the shutters, throws the leaves about, and then drops. It is loud while it lasts and it changes nothing. Everything this word does grows out of that night. Put a person where the wind was, and you have someone whose voice fills the room, whose words sound violent, and whose noise passes without leaving a mark.

可以想成一個颳風的晚上。風不是平穩地推,而是一陣一陣地來:把窗板打得砰砰響,把葉子捲得到處飛,然後就停了。它響的時候更多收起可以想成一個颳風的晚上。風不是平穩地推,而是一陣一陣地來:把窗板打得砰砰響,把葉子捲得到處飛,然後就停了。它響的時候很大聲,卻什麼也沒改變。這個字後面的用法,都可以看成從那一夜長出來的。把風換成一個人,就是那種嗓門塞滿整個房間、話講得很兇、聲音過去之後什麼也沒留下的人。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records Middle English blusteren, 'to wander about aimlessly', with the modern sense apparently picked up from Middle Low German blüstren, 'to blow violently', and notes the word is related to blow and blast.

來源資料寫著:中古英文 blusteren 原本是「漫無目的地亂走」,後來的意思看來是從中古低地德文 blüstren(猛吹)來的,而且它跟 blow、blast 同一家。這條線索正好把「風」放在最前面,人的用法排在後面。

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From the picture

人像風一樣吵

把主詞從風換成人,畫面一模一樣:來得猛、聲音大、過去之後什麼也沒留下。英文選這個字,就是在提醒讀者注意那個「什麼也沒留下」。

verb · C1

To talk in a loud, angry way that is meant to sound strong or threatening, but that does not really impress or frighten the people listening.

虛張聲勢地大聲說;咆哮

Also in this word

verb · C1

When the wind blusters, it blows hard in sudden noisy gusts rather than steadily.

(風)狂吹、一陣一陣猛颳