喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture someone who has taken in so much alcohol that they no longer steer themselves — speech slurred, balance gone, judgment . 'Drunk' is that state of being filled and overcome by drink; from there it stretches to anyone filled-and-overcome by a feeling, and back to the bare grammar of 'having drunk'.

可以想成一個人喝下太多酒、已經控制不住自己——說話含糊、站不穩、判斷鬆掉。整個字的核心畫面比較像「被酒灌滿、被酒沖昏…更多收起可以想成一個人喝下太多酒、已經控制不住自己——說話含糊、站不穩、判斷鬆掉。整個字的核心畫面比較像「被酒灌滿、被酒沖昏」的那種狀態；從這裡往外伸，可以指被任何強烈情緒灌滿、沖昏頭的人，往回收則退回到最樸素的文法身分：drink 的過去分詞。

Three branches

被酒沖昏的狀態

最核心的一群：人被酒灌滿、失去自控。形容詞講狀態，名詞講「處在這狀態的人」。

intoxicated · adjective · B2

Not able to control how you act or speak because you have had too much alcohol.

喝醉的

被情緒沖昏（比喻）

把「被酒沖昏」的畫面借去講情緒：不是酒，而是某種強烈的感覺把你灌滿、接管了你，讓你像醉了一樣失了分寸。

drunk (with feeling) · adjective · B2

So filled with a strong feeling that you act in a wild or strange way, as if it had taken over you.

陶醉的 / 沖昏頭的

drink 的過去分詞（文法）

往回收到最樸素的源頭：drunk 本來就是動詞 drink 的過去分詞，「醉」的所有意思都是從「已經喝下（酒）」這個身分長出來的。

past participle of drink · verb · A2

The past participle of the verb 'drink' (used after has, have, or had).

drink 的過去分詞

原始詞典資料12 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。

drunkadj/dɹʌŋk/

  • 1

    Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

    • So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.
    • "What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"
  • 2

    derogatoryHabitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.

  • 3

    Elated or emboldened.

    • Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
    • drunk with recent prosperity
  • 4

    Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

    • I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

drunkadv/dɹʌŋk/

  • 1

    While drunk.

    • He was arrested for driving drunk.

drunknoun/dɹʌŋk/

  • 1

    One who is intoxicated with alcohol.

    • She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.
  • 2

    A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

    • Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
  • 3

    A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.

    • He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.
  • 4

    A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.

    • Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
    • I wisht somebody would take me off on a drunk. I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…].
  • 5

    A drunken state.

    • Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

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。