核心畫面

Imagine a hall where everybody starts speaking at the same moment. No one is in charge of the noise, no single voice can be followed, and anything you try to say is swallowed. That is the picture the word carries. English then does one clean thing with it: it moves the same hall inside a person, so the feelings are the crowd and the head is the room.

可以想成一個大廳,所有人在同一刻開口說話。沒有人主導,沒有哪一個聲音跟得下去,你想說什麼都會被蓋掉。tumult 帶更多收起可以想成一個大廳,所有人在同一刻開口說話。沒有人主導,沒有哪一個聲音跟得下去,你想說什麼都會被蓋掉。tumult 帶著的就是這個畫面。英文接著做了一件很乾淨的事:把同一個大廳搬進一個人的身體裡。這時候吵的是各種情緒,大廳就是那顆腦袋。

From the word’s history

The supplied Wiktionary entry gives Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus, meaning noise or tumult. The word started with the sound, which is why even the inner sense still behaves like something loud.

packet 附的 Wiktionary 資料說它來自古法文 tumulte,再往上是拉丁文 tumultus(喧鬧)。這個字一開始講的就是聲音。所以就算搬進心裡,它描述情緒的方式還是「很吵、很亂」,而不是「很重、很痛」。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this batch's evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:421883964)

Two branches

外面的喧鬧

這一支就是那個大廳本身:真的有聲音,真的有人群。

noun · C1

A loud, confused and excited situation, usually made by a large crowd — so much noise and movement at once that it is hard to hear anyone or to know what is happening.

喧鬧混亂

心裡的翻騰

同一個大廳被搬進一個人的心裡。外面可能一點聲音都沒有,臉上甚至很平靜,可是裡面的情緒像人群一樣同時在喊。

noun · C1

A confused state of mind caused by strong feelings such as anger, grief or fear, when the feelings come all at once and you cannot think clearly.

內心的翻騰