Name: 提高你的詞彙量：29種用英語表達憤怒的方式 (Improve your Vocabulary: 29 ways to express anger in English)
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In today's video, I want to talk to you about ways express anger.

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We have many ways to show that you're angry or that someone is angry about whatever situation

And surprisingly, we have a lot of ways to show that we're angry.

A lot of words we can use, and expressions we can use to show anger.

We must be very angry people, because we have so many words, but that's what it is.

So, we're going to start with the every day, simple anger words, which are upset, angry,

Now, some people will say that "mad" shouldn't be used, because mad means more like, crazy.

But people use "mad" all the time to mean angry.

Notice also, we can use different prepositions.

Now, we can't use all of them with all of these words, right?

We can be mad at someone or something, but usually just about a person.

We can be mad about something, but we can be angry at, with, or about.

If you're angry at something, it means you're basically directing your anger towards that

So, I'm angry at the president for the bad choices he's made, for example.

You're angry with someone, it shows a little bit more of a personal relationship.

Maybe it's a friend who did something bad, or a coworker, so you're angry with this person.

It has a bit more of that close connection.

And if you're angry about something, then that something is just a cause for your anger.

You have no relationship with this thing.

So, you're angry about the government's decision to change their policy about whatever.

Nobody you can be angry at, so you're just angry about the situation.

You're angry about their decision, and you're angry with your local politician who you voted

Because maybe you have a bit more of a direct connection with that person.

So, these are the every day words that we use.

Now, if you want to show that you're very angry, you have lots of words and expressions

It's a very creative language when it comes to anger.

So, first of all, you can be pissed off, okay?

That just basically means you're very angry.

But some people think that "pissed off" is a bit of a rude word, almost like a swear

Ticked off and pissed off mean the same thing.

Ticked off is a little bit more polite, a little bit more gentle than pissed off.

Now, you can be mad as hell, so this is more of a - gives you a bit of an imagery idea.

Hell is a very angry place, very hot and the devil lives there, so very angry.

And people sometimes say "madder n' hell", madder than hell.

If you're madder than hell, you're even more angry than hell itself, okay?

And we use the - reduce the "than" to just "n".

If you're so angry you don't see anything except red, that's how angry you are, because

Now, keep in mind, if you're going to use any of these words, these are very, very strong

If you're angry that your little brother took your ice cream, you're probably not going

You're just going to be mad, you're going be angry, you're going to be upset.

If you're livid, it's like that's all that's occupying your mind.

Which will come to the next set of expressions, but very, very strong words.

Be very careful about using them, because you're expressing a very strong emotion and

some people might get the wrong meaning from that as well.

So, if you're livid, furious, or incensed, you might even have a fit.

When you have a fit, you're so angry that you're shaking.

It's not fit like you go to the gym and you're fit and you have a good shaped body.

It's a convulsion, if you want another word.

You can't control your body; it's just shaking from anger.

If you're throwing a tantrum, usually we say this about children.

So, you go to the mall and you see like, a child, maybe four or five years old and he

says to his parents, "Oh, I want an ice cream."

And he starts screaming and he lies down on the ground and arms and legs kicking everyone.

If you're saying it about an adult, that adult has some problems and maybe is acting very

So, go ballistic, and usually you go ballistic on someone.

So, some of you might recognize this word "ballistic" from ballistic missile, right?

So, if you go ballistic on someone, you just blow up, okay?

Same idea, you blow up on them, you lose control, you start yelling and shouting and sometimes

you can get a bit violent, but it happens.

But, that's a very good expression and saying "blow up" on someone.

So, the most common situation you'll hear that is in a company.

He started yelling at people, maybe he fired some people, maybe demoted some people.