crazy

将“crazy”与“雷”（circle的缩写）联系起来记忆。想象一个圆形（雷）因为旋转得太快而看起来疯狂或失去了控制，这样就可以记住“crazy”这个词的含义是疯狂的。

crazy 发狂的

来自craze, 发狂。

crazy

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’).

crazy (adj.)

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."

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。

2. Some people can diet like crazy and not lose weight.

有些人拼命节食也不能减肥。

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。

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。

5. So there we were with Amy and she was driving us crazy.

就这样，我们和埃米到了一起，而她快把我们逼疯了。

【eccentric, peculiar, strange, queer, curious, crazy, funny, odd, singular, quaint】
这组词都有“奇怪的，奇异的，新奇的”的意思，其区别是：
eccentric: 指偏离常规的怪异或怪癖。
peculiar: 侧重令人奇怪的或独一无二的特性，也指性格特征方面显著的与众不同之处。
strange: 普通常用词，含义广泛，指陌生新奇、奇怪、奇怪或不自然的人或物。
queer: 指一种无法解释的怪诞，强调事物的奇特和不可思议。
curious: 通常指非常特别或能引起注意、研究或探索的奇特。
crazy: 多指与众不同的行为、外表或人与物本身，含荒唐可笑或神经不正常的意味。
funny: 较通俗用词，指奇怪得滑稽可笑或反常。
odd: 通常指不规律、偶尔出现的人或事物，往往令人困惑或奇怪。
singular: 通常指异常或奇特，暗含不同于一般。
quaint: 指古色古香，会人感到既奇怪又有趣。

【mad, crazy, mental】
这组词都有“发疯的，精神错乱的”的意思，其区别是：
mad: 语气比crazy正式，但系普通用词。通常指人精神狂乱，完全不能自我控制的一种病态。
crazy: 通俗用词，指极度的神经错乱或精神失常，也指对事物的狂势，失去自控能力。
mental: 通常指患有精神病的。