核心畫面

Think of something that has slipped out of anyone's hands. A shop sign thrown about by a storm. A heart before you walk on stage. A feeling so large that the person is carried along by it. Someone shouting with no brake on. Whatever madly is attached to, nobody is steering it any more.

可以想成一樣東西已經脫離控制了。招牌在暴風裡被甩來甩去。上台前心臟自己跳得飛快。一份感覺大到把人整個帶著走。一個人吼更多收起可以想成一樣東西已經脫離控制了。招牌在暴風裡被甩來甩去。上台前心臟自己跳得飛快。一份感覺大到把人整個帶著走。一個人吼起來沒有剎車。不管 madly 接在哪個字後面,共同點都是:已經沒有人在掌控它了。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records madly as Middle English madly, madli, medliche, that is mad plus -ly — in a mad manner.

Wiktionary 記錄 madly 來自中古英語的 madly、madli、medliche,等於 mad 加上 -ly,也就是「以像瘋了的方式」。上面的畫面正好從這裡長出來。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract, entry madly/adv): "From Middle English madly, madli, medliche, equivalent to mad + -ly."

Three branches

動作亂成一片

這是畫面最直接的一支:動作本身就是失控的樣子,你看得見它在亂動。

r · B2

In a wild way that nothing is controlling: moving fast and hard, with no pattern and no steady direction.

狂亂地

感覺強到收不住

把「失控」從身體的動作移到心裡的感覺:亂動的不是東西,是那份感情。

r · B2

Very much, and in a way the person cannot hold back. It goes with words for strong feeling — in love, jealous, keen, excited — and says the feeling has taken the person over.

瘋狂地

氣到壓不住

這一支走的是 mad 另一個日常意思——生氣。失控的畫面還在,只是這次失控的是脾氣。

r · C1

In an angry way: shouting or acting with anger that the person is not keeping in.

氣沖沖地