- 1風潮、熱潮（一下子很紅、往往不久就過的那種）
A craze is a fashion, a game, a song, an app — anything that lots of people suddenly love, and then, often quite soon, drop. We usually say a craze for something. Neutral, everyday, a little like newspaper talk: writers like the word because it already says “hot, and maybe not for long.” A trend can last; a craze feels short and a bit mad. You do not call a person a craze. Though actually, the word started as “to smash, to crack to pieces,” from an old Norse shatter-word that is, in the end, — it sounds like cracking. That older life is why crazed can mean a glaze full of tiny cracks, and why crazy and crazed exist at all. The fashion sense grew from the idea of people going a bit wild for a thing. The verb to craze in everyday talk is rare now; the noun for the short fashion is the one you will actually meet.
From the word’s history
From Middle English crasen 'to shatter', from Old Norse *krasa, ultimately imitative.
源自中古英文 crasen「打碎」，來自古諾斯語，原本模仿聲音。
組成Does not split in modern English. From Middle English crasen, “to crush, shatter,” from Old Norse *krasa, “to shatter,” ultimately imitative. Cousin to Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish words meaning to crackle or smash.
原始詞典資料9 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。
crazenoun/kɹeɪz/
- 1
A strong habitual desire or fancy.
- 2
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
- Have you heard about the new dance craze? / Listen to us, I'm sure you'll be amazed / Big fun to be had by everyone / It's up to you, it surely can be done
- Winemaking was a huge craze in the 1970s, when affordable package holidays to the continent gave people a taste for winedrinking, but the recession made it hard to afford off-license prices back home.
- 3
ceramicschemistryengineeringA crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
- 4
archaicCraziness; insanity.
- ‘A poor fellow with a craze, sir,’ said Mr. Dick, ‘a simpleton, a weak-minded person […] may do what wonderful people may not do. […]’
crazeverb/kɹeɪz/
- 1
archaicTo weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
- till length of years / And ſedentary numneſs craze my limbs
- 2
To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
- any man […] that is crazed and out of his wits
- Grief hath crazed my wits.
- 3
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
- And if Robin should be cast / Sudden from his turfed grave, / And if Marian should have / Once again her forest days, / She would weep and he would craze: [...]
- 4
archaicTo break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
- God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt / And craze thir Chariot wheels:
- 5
To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
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。