喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of nuts as a screw that has worked loose inside someone. While it is tight, everything stays in place. Once it comes loose, whatever is inside comes straight out and nobody is steering any more: the sense comes loose and the person seems crazy, the feeling comes loose and a crowd screams or a parent shouts, the liking comes loose and someone cannot stop talking about what they love. Even the shout Nuts! is a word that slips out before you have decided to say it.

nuts 可以想成「裡面有顆螺絲鬆掉了」。螺絲鎖著的時候，一切都固定在原位；一鬆開，本來被壓住的東西就直接跑出來，也…更多收起nuts 可以想成「裡面有顆螺絲鬆掉了」。螺絲鎖著的時候，一切都固定在原位；一鬆開，本來被壓住的東西就直接跑出來，也沒有人在掌舵了。理智鬆了，人就顯得瘋；情緒鬆了，全場尖叫或是大人發火；喜歡鬆了，就是擋不住地迷上一個人、一樣東西。連感嘆詞 Nuts! 也像是一句還沒決定要說、就先滑出口的話。

Four branches

理智鬆掉：瘋了、很扯

這一家最貼近核心畫面：螺絲鬆掉的地方是「講道理的那一塊」。人變得無法預測，事情變得說不通。

adjective · B1

Crazy — thinking or behaving in a way that seems wild and out of control. It is an informal word, used about people and also about ideas, plans and situations, and it is usually said in a joking way, not about real illness.

瘋了

情緒衝出來：嗨翻、抓狂

同樣是鬆掉，但鬆掉的是壓住情緒的那個蓋子。所以這兩個意思共用一句 go nuts，好事壞事都能用，要靠當下發生什麼事來分辨。

adjective · B1

If a crowd or a person goes nuts, they suddenly get very loud and excited because something good has just happened — a goal, a win, or news everyone was hoping for.

嗨翻；瘋狂歡呼

喜歡擋不住：超愛

喜歡的心情也可以鬆到收不住：滿出來，別人一看就知道。跟核心畫面的關係是同一個「壓不住」，只是流出來的是好感。

adjective · B2

To like someone or something so much that other people can see it — a person you are in love with, or a thing you talk about and go back to again and again.

超愛；迷得不得了

脫口而出的氣話

前面幾家鬆掉的是人的狀態，這一家鬆掉的是嘴巴：話比決定先出來。所以它不再是形容詞，而是一句丟出去的話。

interjection · B2

Said out loud when something bad or annoying happens — you miss the bus, you forget your keys. It shows that you are annoyed or disappointed, and it is mild enough to say in front of anyone.

可惡！糟了！

原始詞典資料10 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。

nutsnoun/nʌts/

  • 1

    slangThe testicles.

  • 2

    card-gamespokerAn unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.

    • If the board is 237QA, all of spades, the nuts is 45 of spades.
    • If the board is 4444J, the nuts is any hand with an ace.

nutsadj/nʌts/

  • 1

    Insane, mad.

    • After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.
    • Are you nuts?
  • 2

    Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.

    • I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts.
    • The referee made a bad call against the home team and the crowd went nuts.
  • 3

    Very fond of (on) someone.

    • He's been nuts on her since the day they met.

nutsintj/nʌts/

  • 1

    Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.

    • Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.
  • 2

    Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.

    • They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。