撕咬重創
重槌落在活的身體上。差別只在動手的換成爪子和牙齒，結果一樣是被硬生生撐開、撕開。
verb · C1
If an animal mauls a person or another animal, it attacks them and tears their skin with its teeth or claws, leaving deep, serious wounds.
撕咬重創
核心畫面
You can picture maul as a long-handled hammer coming down with its whole weight behind it. Nothing sharp, nothing careful — just heavy force landing on something and forcing it apart. Most of the other meanings can be seen as that same blow landing somewhere new: on a body, on a new book, on a losing team, on a bowl of peaches at the market.
maul 可以想成一把長柄的重槌，整個重量壓下來的那一下。它不鋒利、不細緻，靠的就是分量，把東西撐開、打散。這個字後…更多收起
maul 可以想成一把長柄的重槌，整個重量壓下來的那一下。它不鋒利、不細緻，靠的就是分量，把東西撐開、打散。這個字後來的各種用法，都可以想成那一記重擊落在不同的地方：落在身體上，是野獸把人咬得皮開肉綻；落在一本新書上，是評論把它講到體無完膚；落在球隊上，是一場毫無懸念的慘敗；落在一攤水果上，是一堆手把它捏爛。From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces maul to Middle English malle, from Anglo-Norman and Old French mail, from Latin malleus 'hammer', and calls it a doublet of malleus. The tool is the older meaning, and the verb uses read as that hammer blow applied to living things and to reputations.
依照 Wiktionary 的記載，maul 來自中古英文 malle，再往前是盎格魯諾曼語與古法文的 mail，源頭是拉丁文 malleus（鐵槌）；它和英文的 malleus 是同源的雙生字。也就是說，工具是比較老的意思，動詞的各種用法，可以想成那一記槌擊被搬到活的身體和名聲上。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:125131881:16261 / :125148142:23907): Middle English malle < Anglo-Norman, Old French mail < Latin malleus 'hammer'; doublet of malleus.
Three branches
一雙手落在人或東西上
同一記重擊縮小成一雙手：沒有流血，但東西被弄壞、人被弄煩了，共同點還是「手太重」。
verb · C1
To handle a person, an animal or a thing roughly with your hands, pulling, pushing or pawing at it so that it gets squashed, messed up, or so that the person or animal is upset.
粗手粗腳亂弄
比喻：被痛批、被痛宰
重擊不再落在身體上，而是落在作品的名聲和比賽的比數上。被打的東西看不見，可是「撐不住、整個散開」的感覺一模一樣。
verb · C1
To criticize something in public very harshly, especially a new book, film, play or show, so that almost nothing about it is left standing.
痛批／砲轟