一個人的不對勁
核心畫面最原始的落點：一個人身上說不出來的不舒服。
noun · C1
A general feeling of being slightly unwell or slightly unhappy, with no clear cause. Your body feels heavy and tired, or your life feels flat, but nothing you can name is wrong.
渾身不對勁；倦怠感
核心畫面
You can think of malaise as the feeling of not being at ease and not being able to say why. Nothing is sharp enough to point at: no pain with a name, no broken part, no single event. There is only a low, spread-out sense that things are off. Hold that picture on one person's body and mood, and you have one meaning; stretch the same picture over a town, an industry or a country, and you have the other.
malaise 的核心畫面可以想成「坐立難安」：哪裡都不太對，卻指不出是哪裡。沒有一個叫得出名字的痛，也沒有壞掉的零…更多收起
malaise 的核心畫面可以想成「坐立難安」：哪裡都不太對，卻指不出是哪裡。沒有一個叫得出名字的痛，也沒有壞掉的零件或明確的事件，只有一層薄薄的、散開的不舒服。把這個畫面放在一個人的身體和心情上，就是它的一個意思；把同一個畫面攤開到一個小鎮、一個產業、一個國家身上，就是另一個意思。From the word’s history
Malaise comes from French malaise, mal- (bad) plus aise (ease) — literally 'bad ease', which is the same idea English carries in the phrase ill at ease.
malaise 來自法文 malaise：mal-（壞的）加 aise（自在），字面就是「不自在」。英文裡意思最接近的說法是 ill at ease（渾身不對勁）。所以「說不出原因的不舒服」不是後來才長出來的，而是這個字本來的意思。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:859333393): From French malaise (ill ease), from mal- (bad, badly) + aise (ease). Compare ill at ease.
Two branches
一群人的低迷
把同一層「說不出哪裡不對」從一個人攤到一個社會或產業身上。
noun · C1
A general problem in a society, an organization or an economy that people can feel but cannot describe exactly. Things are clearly not working well, and no single cause explains it.
（社會、經濟的）低迷、不對勁