核心畫面

Start with the sound itself: loud guitars, a hard steady , a room of people on their feet in the 1950s. That music did not stay in one place — it went everywhere at once, and for a while it was the thing everyone talked about. Keep both halves of that picture. The first is what the words name; the second is why English can lend the name to anything that suddenly sweeps the room.

可以先想成聲音本身:大聲的吉他、很重的鼓點,1950 年代一整間人站起來跳舞。這種音樂當年不只是好聽,它還一下子紅遍更多收起可以先想成聲音本身:大聲的吉他、很重的鼓點,1950 年代一整間人站起來跳舞。這種音樂當年不只是好聽,它還一下子紅遍每個角落,人人都在談。這個畫面有兩半:一半是音樂本身,一半是「紅到大家都在講」的那種氣勢。第二半就是為什麼英文後來可以拿這個名字借去形容別的東西。

Two branches

音樂本身

這一支就是畫面的第一半:吉他、鼓、強節奏,1950 年代開始流行的那種音樂。

noun · B1

A kind of popular music with a strong, loud beat, played mainly on guitars and drums, which first became popular in the 1950s.

搖滾樂

借來當「最紅」的標準

這一支用的是畫面的第二半:既然當年搖滾樂就是「全世界都在談」的代表,那把這個位置讓給別的東西,就等於說那件事現在最夯。

noun · C2

Used to say that some activity has suddenly become very popular and fashionable, and that people are talking about it everywhere — on television, in newspapers and so on. The source marks this use as British English.

現在最紅最流行的事