喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold 'thrill': a feeling that shoots through you, fast and sharp, the way a wave runs up your back when the roller coaster drops. It arrives all at once, it is pleasant, and part of the pleasure is that it is a little too much.

可以想成一股突然竄過身體的感覺：雲霄飛車往下衝的那一秒，一陣電流從背脊直接跑上來。它來得又快又利，而且是舒服的——但…更多收起可以想成一股突然竄過身體的感覺：雲霄飛車往下衝的那一秒，一陣電流從背脊直接跑上來。它來得又快又利，而且是舒服的——但那份舒服裡本來就摻著一點「有點過頭」的成分，所以 thrill 講的興奮，總帶著刺激感，不是溫溫的高興。

From the word’s history

'Thrill' comes from Middle English thirlen 'to pierce, bore through', from Old English thyrlian (from thyrel 'hole', related to thurh 'through'). By the late 14th century it meant to affect someone with a sudden penetration of emotion, and by the 1590s 'to give a shivering, exciting feeling'; the noun 'a sudden, penetrating, shivering, exciting feeling' dates from the 1670s.

thrill 早期的意思是「刺穿、鑽出一個洞」（中古英語 thirlen，源自古英語 thyrlian，來自 thyrel「洞」＋ thurh「穿過」）；十四世紀末開始用來指情緒突然穿透一個人，十六世紀末變成「讓人起雞皮疙瘩的興奮」，名詞在十七世紀後期定下來。知道這條線，就能理解為什麼 thrill 的興奮總是「穿過身體」的那種，而不是慢慢升起來的愉快。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'thrill' — https://www.etymonline.com/word/thrill

Three branches

竄過身體的那股興奮

最貼近核心畫面的用法：把那股感覺本身，或把帶來那股感覺的經驗，當成一個名詞來抓。

rush of excitement · noun · B1

a sudden strong feeling of excitement and pleasure, or an experience that gives you that feeling.

興奮；快感；刺激

固定說法：刺激是從哪裡來的

同一股興奮，但這兩個固定說法把重點放在「來源」上：一個說刺激來自危險，一個說刺激來自過程。

thrills and spills · noun · B2

in 'thrills and spills', the excitement and small dangers in an activity, especially a sport or show.

刺激與驚險

把這股興奮送給別人（動詞）

同一股感覺換成動詞，主詞變成引發它的那樣東西：不是「我感到興奮」，而是「那件事讓我興奮」。

excite · verb · B1

to make someone feel very excited and happy.

使興奮；使激動

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。

thrillverb詞源 1/θɹɪl/

  • 1

    To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.

    • The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, That sudden cold did run through every vein.
    • 1854, Matthew Arnold, Preface to Poems vivid and picturesque turns of expression […] which thrill the reader with a sudden delight
  • 2

    To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.

  • 3

    obsoleteTo perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.

    • he perced through his chaufed chest With thrilling point of deadly yron brand
  • 4

    obsoleteTo hurl; to throw; to cast.

    • I'd thrill my jauelin at the Grecian moysture

thrillnoun詞源 1/θɹɪl/

  • 1

    A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.

    • She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
  • 2

    A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.

    • The thrill is gone / Gone, gone for me / I still live on, lonely though I'll be
  • 3

    medicinesciencesA slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.

  • 4

    A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

thrillverb詞源 2/θɹɪl/

  • 1

    engineeringmachiningmechanical-engineeringTo drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.

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。