crazy: [16] Crazy originally meant literally ‘cracked’ (a sense preserved in the related crazed). This soon came to be extended metaphorically to ‘frail, ill’ (as in Shakespeare’s ‘some better place, fitter for sickness and crazy age’, 1 Henry VI), and thence to ‘mentally unbalanced’. It was derived from the verb craze [14], which was probably borrowed from an unrecorded Old Norse verb *krasa ‘shatter’ (likely source, too, of French écraser ‘crush, smash’).
1570s, "diseased, sickly," from craze + -y (2). Meaning "full of cracks or flaws" is from 1580s; that of "of unsound mind, or behaving as so" is from 1610s. Jazz slang sense "cool, exciting" attested by 1927. To drive (someone) crazy is attested by 1873. Phrase crazy like a fox recorded from 1935. Crazy Horse, Teton Lakhota (Siouan) war leader (d.1877) translates thašuka witko, literally "his horse is crazy."
双语例句
1. "That's crazy," I said. "Isn't it just?" he said.
“那简直是疯了，”我说。“谁说不是呢？”他说。
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2. Some people can diet like crazy and not lose weight.
有些人拼命节食也不能减肥。
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3. None of that matters, because we're crazy about each other.
那些都不重要，因为我们深深地爱着对方。
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4. I'm also not crazy about the initial terms of the deal.
我对该协议的最初条款也不太满意。
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5. So there we were with Amy and she was driving us crazy.
