- 1激怒、惹火、氣瘋
To madden someone is to make them very angry or very — so angry that they almost cannot think straight. It is a bit stronger and a bit more old-fashioned or literary than just or make angry. You still hear it, but in everyday talk people more often say drive someone mad, drive someone crazy, or just . It is usually the situation or the other person’s behaviour that maddens you, not a punch in the face: noise, waiting, being ignored, a problem that will not go away. You can madden a person, and in older writing you also see animals maddened by pain or heat, meaning pushed into a wild, out-of-control state. Do not mix this verb with the family name Madden; that is a different word.
組成mad (angry, wild) + -en (make someone that way). Same kind of ending as sadden or widen.
原始詞典資料7 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。
Maddenname/ˈmædən/
- 1
A surname from Irish.
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A place name:
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maddenverb/ˈmædən/
- 1
To make angry.
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To make insane; to inflame with passion.
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obsoleteTo become furious.
- The rascal saw his advantage, and began a fierce harangue against the heretic strangers. As he maddened, his hearers maddened; the savage nature, capricious as a child's, flashed out in wild suspicion. Women yelled, men scowled, and ran hastily to their huts for bows and blow-guns.
- And as he maddened at the thought, honest Fergus, too, forgot himself, and added in an excited strain, " I wish one end o' the hog's puddin' was sthuck in yer nose, you foolish craythur!"
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