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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 .
To madden someone madden 一個人 is to make them very angry or very annoyed就是讓他非常生氣或非常火大 so angry that they almost cannot think straight氣到幾乎無法好好思考 than just annoy or make angry比起單純的 annoy 或 make angry it is a bit stronger and a bit more old-fashioned or literary，madden 語氣更重、也比較老派或文學 You still hear it你還是聽得到這個字 but in everyday talk people more often say不過日常口語大家更常說 drive someone mad, drive someone crazy, or just infuriate drive someone mad、drive someone crazy，或直接說 infuriate
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.
It is usually the situation or the other person's behaviour通常是情況本身或對方的行為 that maddens you讓你 madden 生氣的 not a punch in the face不是被打一拳那種直接的 noise, waiting, being ignored, a problem that will not go away像是噪音、等待、被忽視、一直解決不了的問題 You can madden a person你可以說 madden 一個人 and in older writing you also see而在較舊的文章裡也會看到 animals maddened by pain or heat動物因疼痛或炎熱而 maddened meaning pushed into a wild, out-of-control state意思是被逼到狂野、失控的狀態
Do not mix this verb with the family name Madden; that is a different word.
Do not mix this verb不要把這個動詞 with the family name Madden跟姓氏 Madden 搞混 that is a different word那是不同的字
原始詞典資料7 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。
Maddenname/ˈmædən/
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A surname from Irish.
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A place name:
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A place name:
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A place name:
maddenverb/ˈmædən/
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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!"
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。