美到讓人愣住
讓人愣住的來源是「看到的東西太好看」。這是這個字最常見的落點。
noun · C1
A person or thing that is so good-looking or so lovely that people stop and stare. It is used most often about a woman, and it is warm, spoken English rather than formal English.
大美人；驚豔的人事物
核心畫面
One way to hold stunner: something reaches you — a face in a photo, a score on a screen — and for a second you have no words. The word does not really describe the thing. It names the thing by the small silence it leaves in the person who met it.
可以想成這樣的畫面：有個東西突然出現在你面前，你愣了一秒，話說不出來。stunner 指的就是「造成那一秒空白的那一…更多收起
可以想成這樣的畫面：有個東西突然出現在你面前，你愣了一秒，話說不出來。stunner 指的就是「造成那一秒空白的那一個」。它形容的其實不是那東西本身長什麼樣，而是它在看的人身上留下的反應。也因為這樣，這個字聽起來永遠帶著一點驚嘆。From the word’s history
From stun + -er: the thing that stuns.
來源可以想成 stun（讓人愣住）加上 -er（做這件事的那個）。字面就是「讓人愣住的那一個」，這條線索正好對上它今天兩個用法的共同點。
Wiktionary entry for stunner (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:535123289): "From stun + -er."
Two branches
消息讓人愣住
同一秒的空白，換成是「事情發生了」造成的。畫面沒變，只是把眼睛換成耳朵。
noun · C1
An event, a result or a piece of news that surprises everyone because nobody expected it.
爆冷；震撼消息