毫無秩序的狀態
兩個意思是同一片「沒有秩序」的畫面，只是尺度不同：一個是宇宙初開前的原始虛空，一個是眼前生活裡失控的一團亂。
primordial chaos · noun · B2
The empty, formless state that people imagine the universe was in before any order began.
混沌
核心畫面
You can picture chaos as a vast, emptiness where nothing has any order yet — no shape, no arrangement, nothing in its place. It's the void people imagined before the world was sorted into anything. From that picture of 'no order at all', the everyday sense grows: drop that same total lack of order into a room, a city, or a plan, and you get a mess where nothing works together.
可以想成：一片廣大、沒有形狀的空茫，裡面還沒有任何秩序——沒有形體、沒有安排、沒有東西各就各位。就是人們想像中，世界…更多收起
可以想成：一片廣大、沒有形狀的空茫，裡面還沒有任何秩序——沒有形體、沒有安排、沒有東西各就各位。就是人們想像中，世界被理出頭緒之前那個張著大口的虛空。從這個「完全沒有秩序」的畫面，日常的意思就長出來了：把這種毫無條理的狀態放進一個房間、一座城市或一份計畫裡，就成了什麼都運轉不起來的一團亂。From the word’s history
From Greek khaos 'abyss, that which gapes wide open, vast and empty'. In Hesiod it is the primeval emptiness before the ordered universe; the modern 'utter confusion' sense (c.1600) is an extension of that formless-void picture.
來自希臘文 khaos「深淵、大大張開的裂口、廣大而空無」。在赫西俄德筆下，它是有序宇宙出現之前那片原始的空茫；現代「一團混亂」的意思（約一六〇〇年）就是從這個「無形虛空」的畫面延伸出來的。
etymonline.com/word/chaos
One branch
原始詞典資料11 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。
Chaosname/ˈkeɪ.ɒs/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyIn Greek mythology, the primordial state of disorder that exists before the creation of the world, or the first being or deity to exist.
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astronomynatural-sciencesA planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.
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fantasyliteraturemediaIn the Warhammer franchise, a demonic antagonist that sends demons, monsters, warriors, and beasts to wage war on the games' setting.
- Chaos warrior, Chaos daemon
chaosnoun/ˈkeɪɒs/
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The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
- 2
Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
- to descend into chaos
- After the earthquake, the local hospital was in chaos
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mathematicssciencesA behavior of iterative nonlinear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
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fantasyOne of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
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obsoleteA vast chasm or abyss.
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obsoleterareA given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
- What is in the centre of the earth, or is it pure element only, as Ariſtotle decrees inhabited as Paracelſus thinks with creatures, whoſe Chaos is the earth with Fairies, as the woods and waters according to him, are with Nymphes or as the ayre with ſpirits.
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。