核心畫面

Picture force that has gone past the point where anyone can hold it back. Hands that will not stop shaking. A boat that will not stop rocking. The same too-much force can be aimed by a person at someone else, and it can also happen entirely inside a feeling, so that the voice and the position carry it instead of the body. Every use of violently sits somewhere on that scale of force beyond control.

可以想成一股已經超過「收得回來」那條線的力道。手抖到停不下來。船晃到停不下來。同樣這股過頭的力道,可以被人有意識地朝更多收起可以想成一股已經超過「收得回來」那條線的力道。手抖到停不下來。船晃到停不下來。同樣這股過頭的力道,可以被人有意識地朝別人用出去;也可以完全發生在情緒裡,由語氣和立場承載,身體根本沒動。violently 的三種用法,就像都排在這條「力道大到控制不住」的線上。

From the word’s history

The packet's source entry gives it as Middle English violently, equivalent to violent + -ly — the adjective for overwhelming force, turned into a word for how something happens.

packet 裡的來源說它來自中古英文 violently,等於 violent + -ly。也就是把「猛烈、擋不住」這個形容詞,變成形容動作怎麼發生的副詞。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1025515762): 'From Middle English violently; equivalent to violent + -ly.'

Three branches

擋不住的力道

核心畫面最素樸的版本:沒有人存心做什麼,力道自己就過頭了。

r · B2

With so much force or movement that it cannot be controlled or stopped — used about shaking, trembling, coughing, rocking, and about being very ill.

劇烈地/猛烈地

傷人的暴力

同一股過頭的力道,這次由一個人有意識地朝別人或東西用出去。

r · B2

In a way that uses physical force to hurt people or to damage things.

暴力地

情緒上的激烈

力道整個搬進情緒和語氣裡,人完全沒有碰到人。

r · B2

With very strong feeling or energy, especially anger — used about how someone argues, objects, reacts or takes a side, with no physical force involved at all.

激烈地/強烈地