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method /ˈmeθəd/ ●there’s ˌmethod in sb’s ˈmadnessthere is a reason for your behaviour and it is not as strange or as stupid as it seems 看来奇怪(或愚蠢)的行为自有其道理◆‘Why do you always read your newspaper backwards?’ ‘Ah, there’s method in my madness — the back pages are where the sport is.’ “你看报纸时,为什么总是从后往前看?”“哦,我自有道理,因为体育版在后面。” ORIGIN This comes from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet: ‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t (= in it).’ 这个习语源于莎士比亚戏剧《哈姆雷特》:“看似疯狂,实有道理。” |