身體不聽指令
這一支就是畫面本身，從描述身體、到指那個人、再到指讓身體變成這樣的藥。
adjective · C1
Suffering from paralysis: unable to move, and often unable to feel, because the nerves that carry the message from the brain to the muscles are not working.
癱瘓的
核心畫面
Picture someone telling their own hand to move, and nothing happening. The wish is there, the hand is there, and the line between them has gone quiet. That is the picture the whole word carries: a body that no longer takes orders. From it you get the medical adjective, the noun for a person in that state, the noun for a drug that produces that state on purpose and briefly, and, as slang in Britain, Ireland and Australia, the state of someone who has drunk so much that the body has stopped listening too.
可以想成一個人叫自己的手動一下，結果什麼都沒發生。想動的念頭在，手也在，只是中間那條線靜掉了。整個字都繞著這個畫面：…更多收起
可以想成一個人叫自己的手動一下，結果什麼都沒發生。想動的念頭在，手也在，只是中間那條線靜掉了。整個字都繞著這個畫面：身體不再接受指令。醫學上的形容詞是這樣來的，指人的名詞也是。指藥的名詞是刻意、暫時做出這個狀態。而在英國、愛爾蘭和澳洲的口語裡，同一個畫面被拿去形容喝到身體也不聽話的人。From the word’s history
Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek paralutikos, paralysed. The Greek root is about something being loosened or released, which fits the picture of the line between the will and the muscle coming undone.
從法文 paralytique 借進來，法文來自拉丁文 paralyticus，再往上是古希臘文 παραλυτικός（癱瘓的）。希臘字根講的是「鬆開、解開」，正好對上那個畫面：想動的念頭和肌肉之間，那條線鬆掉了。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1235227242): Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek paralutikos (paralyzed).
Two branches
醉到身體也不聽話
把醫學的畫面誇張地借去形容喝太多的人：一樣是身體不聽指令，只是原因完全不同。英國、愛爾蘭、澳洲的口語用法。
adjective · C2
So drunk that you can hardly move, stand or speak. It comes after the verb — you say someone is paralytic — and it is heard mainly in Britain, Ireland and Australia.
醉到動彈不得