核心畫面
Picture a quiet room and then a door slamming. Two things happen at once: it was fast, and nothing led up to it. That second part is what really carries the word — a slow thing can still be sudden if it arrives with no warning, and a fast thing you were expecting is not sudden at all.
可以想成：一個安靜的房間，門「砰」地被甩上。這裡有兩件事同時發生：速度很快，而且前面完全沒有預兆。真正撐起這個字的是…更多收起
可以想成：一個安靜的房間，門「砰」地被甩上。這裡有兩件事同時發生：速度很快，而且前面完全沒有預兆。真正撐起這個字的是後面那半——早就知道會來的事，再快也不叫 sudden；反過來說，只要毫無心理準備，那個「沒想到」的感覺就是這個字的重點。原始詞典資料5 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。
suddenadj/ˈsʌd.ən/
- 1
Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
- The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.
- From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.
- 2
obsoleteHastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
- Thus these pious flourishes and colours, examined thoroughly, are like the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye; but look well upon them, or at least but touch them, and they turn into cinders.
- 3
obsoleteHasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
suddenadv/ˈsʌd.ən/
- 1
Suddenly.
- Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.
suddennoun/ˈsʌd.ən/
- 1
obsoleteAn unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
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。