unhinge

• vt. 使分开；取下…的铰链；使发狂或错乱

un-, 不，非，使相反，hinge, 铰链，门合页。即门合页松开的，引申词义精神错乱。

1. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed;

"She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"

2. remove the hinges from;

"unhinge the door"

unhinge (v.)

recorded earlier in the mental sense of "to disorder" the mind, etc. (1612) than in the literal one of "to take (a door, etc.) off its hinges" (1616); from un- (2) "opposite of" + hinge (n.). Hinge as a verb meaning "to attach by a hinge" is recorded only from 1758. Related: Unhinged; unhinging.

Of course, political upheaval could unhinge all the above.

当然, 政治上的巨变可以使以上说的东西支离破碎.

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