核心畫面

Take the two words at face value: something is bending your mind. Picture your thinking as a straight piece of wire that usually holds its shape, and then something comes along and pushes it out of line. What does the pushing is what changes between the uses. An idea can be so big or so strange that your thinking cannot stay straight around it. A drug can do it , so that what a person sees and feels bends away from the room they are in. Either way the word is not describing the thing so much as what the thing does to you.

照字面看就好:有東西正在把你的腦袋折彎。可以想成你的思路是一條原本筆直的鐵絲,平常都維持著自己的形狀,然後有東西來把更多收起照字面看就好:有東西正在把你的腦袋折彎。可以想成你的思路是一條原本筆直的鐵絲,平常都維持著自己的形狀,然後有東西來把它推得歪掉。不同用法的差別,只在於是「誰」在推。一個想法可以大到、怪到讓你的思路直不起來。一種藥物可以用化學的方式做同一件事,讓人看到、感覺到的東西偏離了他真正所在的房間。兩種用法裡,這個字講的都不是那樣東西本身,而是那樣東西對你做了什麼。

Two branches

想法把腦袋撐開

折彎腦袋的是一個想法:它太大、太繞,你的思路在它旁邊站不直。

adjective · B2

So strange, so large, or so complicated that your mind can hardly hold it; very hard to understand or to take in.

燒腦的

藥物把感官折彎

同一個「折彎」的畫面,只是這次動手的不是想法,而是化學作用,被折彎的是看見與感覺。

adjective · C1

Used about a drug that acts strongly on the mind, so that a person sees, hears, or feels things that are not really there.

致幻的