haywire

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hay +‎ wire。原指像用软而有弹性的铁丝捆起来一般“容易混乱地缠起来的”或者“容易散开的”[1]。约1905年在新英格兰的伐木场,“haywire outfit”开始用来指粗制的伐木工具。 后to go haywire词义发展成指代“散开”或者“行为失控”,就像拉紧的工厂线轴在抽走一个零件以后因弹性松散开乱成一团。

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haywire (複數 haywires)

  1. 干草铁丝
    • 1886年5月6日,W. A. Huffman Implement Company,“Superior Lawn Mowers!”,出自 Fort Worth Daily Gazette[1], 頁號7:
      MOWERS AND HAY RAKES, HAY PRESSES, HAY TIES AND HAY WIRE.

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haywire (比較級 more haywire最高級 most haywire)

  1. 粗制滥造的,粗糙的,简易
  2. 失控的,失常一般带动词go
    It was working fine until it went haywire and wouldn't stop printing blank sheets.
    它本来没问题的,然后突然间就坏了,开始不停地打印出来空白的纸。
    Those kids go haywire when they don't get what they want.
    那些小孩得不到想要的东西就开始耍脾气了。
    • 1905年5月1日,Reading,J. W.,“Engine Failures”,出自 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Monthly Journal[2],卷號XXXIX,期號5, 頁號423:
      The engineer who makes of his calling a burden, who sees nothing but the wrong, or imposition as he may term it, who fancies perhaps that the whole world has conspired against him, who commences to damn things as soon as he appears upon the scene of his labors, and continues to damn everything, including his train crew, the engine, the officers, and almost everything, animate and inanimate, while making the round trip, is working out his own destiny, and it is but charitable to say of such a man that he is not well, his digestion has gone " hay wire " as it were.
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    • 1928,Horace Marden Albright, Frank J. Taylor,章號1,出自 "Oh, Ranger!": A Book about the National Parks[3], 頁號1:
      "I got phone orders at Tuolumne Meadows to pack up and come over Sunrise Trail. Started at sunrise. Everything haywire, including cranky pack horse which kept getting off trail. Phoned in at Vernal Falls station. Ordered to hurry down, help catch two auto thieves which broke jail just after breakfast. Assigned to guard Coulterville Road.
    • 2014Elizabeth KolbertThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,Picador, →ISBN, 頁號103:
      Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium.
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  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “haywire”, 在线词源词典》(Online Etymology Dictionary