berserk

英 [b?'z??k; -s-] 美
  • adj. 狂怒的
  • adv. 狂暴地,狂怒地

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【記】源自bear + shirt 身披熊皮的發(fā)狂斗士

中文詞源


berserk 發(fā)怒

ber, 同bear, 熊。serk, 同sartorial, 縫制。原指熊皮制成的衣服。

英文詞源


berserk
berserk: [19] Sir Walter Scott appears to be responsible for introducing this word to the English language. He mentions it in a footnote to his novel The pirate 1822, adopting it (in the form berserkar) from the Icelandic berserkr ‘frenzied Norse warrior’. Its etymology is not altogether clear. Its second syllable represents serkr ‘coat, shirt’ (a word English used to have, as sark: cutty sark meant ‘short shirt’), but the first is disputed.

Scott took it to mean ‘bare’ (which would have been Icelandic berr), and in fact the anglicized form baresark was quite commonly used in the mid 19th century; the plausible-sounding notion underlying this is that the original berserkr was so called because in his battle-crazed frenzy he tore off his armour and fought in his shirt-sleeves – ‘bare-shirted’. However, 20th-century etymologists have tended to prefer the theory that ber- is ‘bear’, representing Icelandic bern-, a by-form of bjorn ‘bear’.

The concept of warriors dressing themselves in animals’ skins is an ancient one, found in many mythologies. The modern use of the word as an adjective, meaning ‘in a violent frenzy’, appears to date from the third quarter of the 19th century.

berserk (adj.)
1844, from berserk (n.) "Norse warrior," by 1835, an alternative form of berserker (1822), a word which was introduced by Sir Walter Scott, from Old Norse berserkr (n.) "raging warrior of superhuman strength;" probably from *ber- "bear" + serkr "shirt," thus literally "a warrior clothed in bearskin." Thus not from Old Norse berr "bare, naked."
Thorkelin, in the essay on the Berserkir, appended to his edition of the Krisini Saga, tells that an old name of the Berserk frenzy was hamremmi, i.e., strength acquired from another strange body, because it was anciently believed that the persons who were liable to this frenzy were mysteriously endowed, during its accesses, with a strange body of unearthly strength. If, however, the Berserk was called on by his own name, he lost his mysterious form, and his ordinary strength alone remained. ["Notes and Queries," Dec. 28, 1850]
The adjectival use probably is from such phrases as berserk frenzy, or as a title (Arngrim the Berserk).

雙語(yǔ)例句


1. He tossed back his head in a howl of berserk laughter.
他仰天狂笑。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. When I saw him I went berserk.
我一看見他就冒火。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. I completely lost it. I went mad, berserk.
我火冒三丈,發(fā)了瘋似的。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. He went berserk when he found out where I'd been.
他弄清楚我去過哪兒后勃然大怒。

來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》

5. The dog went berserk when a wasp stung him.
狗給黃蜂咬了,變得狂暴.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

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