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Rage is very strong, often anger. As a verb, something 'rages' when it continues violently and doesn't stop, like a storm or a fire. There's also a casual phrase, 'all the rage,' which has nothing to do with anger — it just means something is very popular right now.
憤怒;狂怒
組成Probably comes from an old Latin word meaning 'to be mad' or 'to rave' — the same root that gives us the word for the disease rabies.
同家族的字
- rabidboth probably come from the same Latin root meaning 'to be mad,' also behind the word rabies
原始詞典資料9 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。
ragenoun詞源 1/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
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Violent uncontrolled anger.
- Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.
- They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
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A current fashion or fad.
- Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
- But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
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slangAn exciting and boisterous party.
- That evening, Felix and Trish Homer invited me to the Sundancer for "a bit of a rage."
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
- Tripp At Knight feels like a Carti homage, but while it certainly gestures towards the rage sound, Trippie’s imitation of Carti is largely rooted in 2019 rather than 2021.
- The list of rappers affiliated with rage has exploded in the subsequent 18 months, and several seem poised to break out in 2023.
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obsoleteAny vehement passion.
- And your true rights be termed a poet's rage
- in great rage of pain
rageverb詞源 2/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
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To act or speak in heightened anger.
- When a Muslim politician held a 50th birthday party, he [Zaharan Hashim] raged about how Western infidel traditions were poisoning his hometown, Kattankudy.
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To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- Horrible diſcord, and the madding Wheeles / Of brazen Chariots rag'd; dire was the noiſe / Of conflict; over head the diſmal hiſs / Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew, / And flying vaulted either Hoſt with fire.
- The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
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slangTo party hard; to have a good time.
- These events are all about raging hard, getting as fucked up as you can. Not necessarily even about dancing, just being a face in this giant extravaganza.
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obsoleterareTo enrage.
- The King is come, deale mildly with his youth, / For young hot Colts, being rag'd, do rage the more.
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。