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If you are discombobulated, you are completely mixed up: you cannot think straight, you have lost the thread, you feel knocked sideways. People say it as a joke. It is a long, silly-sounding American word, and that is the point — you use it when you want “confused” to sound funny, not sad. You might say it after a long flight, a noisy family dinner, or a meeting that went in five directions. You would not put it in a serious report. Though actually, there is no tidy old Latin story here. It was made up in American English to sound like a fancy “dis-” word. The verb is discombobulate, but this -ed form is the one you hear most.
整個人被搞糊塗了(幽默、口語)
組成A playful American invention, built to sound like a serious dis- word. The pieces are there for the sound, not as real Latin parts.
原始詞典資料3 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。
discombobulatedadj
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informalConfused, embarrassed, upset.
- After months of preparation for a new sign ordinance, the Planning Commission appeared discombobulated over the idea of adopting the new regulations when confronted by a few members of the public.
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informalBroken, mixed up.
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。