- 1震怒、盛怒；（宗教、文學用語的）憤怒。台灣的聖經與奇幻作品常譯成「（神的）忿怒」「烈怒」，日常口語不會用這個字，太重了。
Wrath is very strong anger — not the everyday kind you feel when someone takes your parking space, but big, burning anger, the kind that makes someone want to punish. It is a noun, and it is a formal, old-sounding, often religious word. You meet it most in the Bible, in old stories, in fantasy books and films, and in newspaper headlines that want to sound dramatic: "the wrath of God", "the wrath of the king", "the wrath of the storm". Notice that last one — people also use it for nature, as if the sea or the sky were angry with us. The most common shape by far is "the wrath of somebody/something", and after that "face//escape somebody's wrath", meaning to get, or avoid getting, someone's anger aimed at you. In real conversation, though, this is where it gets interesting: people today mostly use it half-jokingly. "I'd better wash these dishes or I'll face my mother's wrath." The word is so grand that using it about a small thing makes it funny, and native speakers know that and enjoy it. Wrath is also one of the seven deadly sins in Christian teaching, which is why it turns up in lists next to greed and pride. There is an old adjective, wroth (angry), which is now almost dead outside poetry, and a verb use of wrath, which you can safely ignore — nobody says it now. Say the word carefully: British speakers usually say it to rhyme with "cloth", Americans usually to rhyme with "math" said with an -th at the end.
From the word’s history
From Middle English wratthe, from Old English wrǣþþu 'ire, wrath'; effectively wroth + -th.
源自古英文 wrǣþþu「憤怒」，相當於 wroth「生氣的」加 -th。
組成Old English wrǣþþu "anger", from *wraiþ "angry; twisted, bent" plus -þu, an ending that turns a describing word into a thing-word (like strong → strength). Underneath it all sits a very old root meaning "to twist" — anger as something that twists a person out of shape.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
wrathnoun詞源 1/ɹɒθ/
- 1
formalGreat anger; (countable) an instance of this.
- Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.
- Let all bitternes, fearſnes and wrath, rorynge and curſyd ſpeakynge, be put awaye from you, with all maliciouſnes.
- 2
Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.
- the wrath of God
- […] I [i.e., God] gaue the [thee] a kinge in my wrath, and in my diſpleaſure will I take him from the agayne.
- 3
obsoleteGreat ardour or passion.
- [T]hey are in the verie vvrath of loue, and they vvill together. Clubbes cannot part them.
- [I]f you hold your life at any price, betake you to your gard: for your oppoſite hath in him vvhat youth, ſtrength, skill, and vvrath, can furniſh man vvithall.
wrathverb詞源 1/ɹɒθ/
- 1
obsoleteTo anger (someone); to enrage.
- [R]emembre howe by thy cursed synnes thou haste offended and wrathed thy lorde god.
- Of ire yͤ whiche is agayne god. […] A man wratheth hym ayenst god for many thynges, pryncypally for the flagellacions, aduersytees, fortunes, sykenesses, & mortalytees, losses, punycyons, famyne, warre & yll tyme.
- 2
obsoleteTo become angry with (someone).
- 3
obsoleteTo become angry.
- "Nay, wrath thee not, Will," said Ganlesse; "and speak no words in haste, lest you may have cause to repent at leisure.[…]"
- God is a righteous judge, strong and patient, and God wratheth every day.
wrathadj詞源 2/ɹɒθ/
- 1
archaicobsoleteSynonym of wroth (“full of anger; wrathful”).
- Take heede the Queene come not vvithin his ſight, For Oberon is paſſing fell and vvrath: Becauſe that ſhe, as her attendant, hath A louely boy ſtollen, from an Indian king: She neuer had ſo ſvveete a changeling.
- VVhereat the Prince full vvrath, his ſtrong right hand In full auengement heaued vp on hie, And ſtroke the Pagan vvith his ſteely brand So ſore, that to his ſaddle bovv thereby He bovved lovv, and ſo a vvhile did lie: […]
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