溫度真的太高
這一家就是核心畫面本身:熱是真的熱,用手就摸得出來。
adjective · B2
Made too hot, or having become too hot — used about a room, a place, or a machine that has taken in more heat than is comfortable or safe.
過熱的;太熱的
Think of something that has taken in more heat than it can carry. A waiting room with the heating left on, a laptop sitting on a duvet, an engine at the top of a long hill. It has not stopped yet — it is still a room, still a laptop, still running — and that is exactly why the word is a warning: this is past the point where it stays comfortable or safe. Every use of overheated can be traced back to that picture of too much heat in a thing that was working fine a moment ago.
這個字的組成本身就說明了核心畫面:over-(超過)+ heat(加熱)+ -ed(被…的)。可以想成「被加熱到超過該有的程度」。這是從字面拆解來的說法,供給的資料裡沒有附詞源記載,所以只當成理解的線索,不是歷史考證。
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溫度真的太高
這一家就是核心畫面本身:熱是真的熱,用手就摸得出來。
adjective · B2
Made too hot, or having become too hot — used about a room, a place, or a machine that has taken in more heat than is comfortable or safe.
過熱的;太熱的
跑過頭、停不下來的那種熱
把摸得到的熱換成看不見的熱。一場討論、一個市場,都像一台還在轉的機器:它現在跑得很快,快到撐不住。英文本來就常把情緒和景氣講成溫度,所以這一家幾乎都和 cool(降溫)一起出現。這是概念上的延伸,不是歷史上的來源。
adjective · C1
Too full of anger, excitement or imagination — used about arguments, language, feelings and the mood of a group of people.
激動過頭的;言過其實的