心裡失控：驚慌
這一支直接就是核心畫面本身，講的是失控發生在「裡面」——情緒與思考的那一層。
panicked · adjective · C2
So worried and scared about what is happening that you cannot keep calm or think clearly.
驚慌
核心畫面
One way to picture it: the mind has slipped out of the driver's seat. Something urgent is happening, and instead of steady thinking there is a hot, rush inside — the person is still moving, still doing things, but nothing is under calm control any more.
腦子已經不在駕駛座上了。事情逼到眼前，人整個被一股又熱又亂的衝勁推著走——手還在動、嘴還在講、身體還在跑，但那個能穩…更多收起
腦子已經不在駕駛座上了。事情逼到眼前，人整個被一股又熱又亂的衝勁推著走——手還在動、嘴還在講、身體還在跑，但那個能穩下來想一想的部分已經斷線了。frantic 描述的正是這種「失去內在方向盤」的狀態，至於它表現成心裡的恐慌，還是外在的瞎忙，就看用在哪裡。From the word’s history
The word goes back through Old French frenetique to Late Latin phreneticus and Greek phrenitikós, used of someone delirious from an inflammation of the brain — a mind literally out of order. Modern frantic keeps that picture in a milder, everyday form: not madness, but a mind too overheated to steer itself.
這個字一路可以追回古法語 frenetique、晚期拉丁語 phreneticus，再到希臘語 phrenitikós，原本講的是腦部發炎而神智錯亂的人——真的是腦子出了狀況。現代的 frantic 保留了這個畫面，只是溫和成日常版本：不是發瘋，而是腦子燒得太燙、沒辦法自己掌舵。這也解釋了為什麼 frantic 永遠帶著一點「失控」的味道，而不只是「很急」。
Wiktionary / Online Etymology Dictionary (frantic ← frenetik ← Late Latin phreneticus ← Greek phrenitikós)
Two branches
行動失控：忙亂
同一種失控，只是從心裡溢到動作上——旁人看不到你的慌，但看得到你手忙腳亂的樣子。
hurried and messy · adjective · C2
Done in a great hurry, with a lot of energy, but in a messy, not well-planned way.
忙亂
原始詞典資料4 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。
franticadj/ˈfɹæn.tɪk/
- 1
archaicInsane, mentally unstable.
- Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke: and ys sore vexed.
- If with myself I hold intelligence, Or have acquaintance with mine own desires; If that I do not dream, or be not frantic— As I do trust I am not—then, dear uncle, Never so much as in a thought unborn Did I offend your Highness.
- 2
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
- They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
- Sir George bore the annoyances of the night as a very vain man does totally unaccustomed to mortification. He was frantic with passion; he longed to kill somebody, but he did not know who.
- 3
Extremely energetic.
- frantic music
- At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
franticnoun/ˈfɹæn.tɪk/
- 1
archaicA person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5, How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?
- […] who but senseless Franticks would have thoughts so poor? My Reason forsakes the government of this weak Frame, and I am fall’n into disorder […]
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。