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A fad is something many people suddenly like — a toy, a diet, a dance, an app — and then, not long after, almost nobody cares. While it lasts, it can feel huge. After it dies, it can look a bit silly. Clothes, food, and the internet are full of fads. The word is slightly judging: calling something a fad says you do not think it will last, and maybe that it was never very deep. Though actually, some things people called fads later became ordinary habits; you only know after time has passed. Trend is a close friend, but a trend can grow slowly. A fad jumps up and often falls just as fast.
一時的風潮；流行一時的事物
組成From English dialect; the further origin is not clear. It may come from Old English ġefæd (“order”), or from French fadaise (“a trifling thought”). Scholars are not sure.
原始詞典資料2 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。
fadnoun/fæd/
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A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
- You're a fad, that means you're something that we've already had, but once you're gone, you don't come back.
- The pet rock fad was started by an advertising executive named Gary Dahl. The premise was simple: take ordinary rocks, glue eyes on them, and market them as pets.
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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。