[ti:What Does It Mean to Go 'Haywire?']
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[00:06.68]Welcome to Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English!
[00:14.40]Today, we are going on a make-believe trip to the countryside
[00:19.68]to learn about a word that comes from something used on a farm – haywire.
[00:26.64]Like it sounds, haywire is a strong, thin wire.
[00:33.36]Farm workers often use it to tie up hay grown in the fields.
[00:39.48]They roll up the long, cut grass and store it in large bundles.
[00:46.40]Later, when farm animals need to be fed, the wire is cut.
[00:52.20]You need to use a hatchet or something else with a very sharp edge to cut the wire.
[00:59.20]Haywire does not break easily.
[01:02.88]But it can get easily twisted together by accident.
[01:08.64]So, that is the farm material called haywire.
[01:13.44]But what does it mean to go haywire?
[01:17.48]The expression "to go haywire" has several meanings.
[01:23.12]"To go haywire" can mean to turn crazy,
[01:26.88]unreasonable or wild, as in this example:
[01:32.32]"If I don't take a break from work soon,
[01:35.20]I am going to go haywire!"
[01:38.40]Here, the expressions flip out or freak out have a similar meaning.
[01:45.72]These are all informal or for everyday use.
[01:52.20]If you want to be more formal, you could use the word berserk.
[01:57.59]"To go haywire" also means to start malfunctioning
[02:02.92]or failing to operate normally.
[02:06.52]We often use this expression for machines that don't work as they should.
[02:12.48]For example, let's say we are visiting a peanut butter factory.
[02:19.16]A machine used to pump peanut butter into jars suddenly goes haywire.
[02:26.56]It squirts peanut butter everywhere – on the floor,
[02:30.48]on walls and on factory workers.
[02:34.76]Soon the whole area is covered with the tasty, but sticky food!
[02:41.24]So, the machine is not only broken, it made a huge mess.
[02:48.12]"Haywire" can also mean to become out of control.
[02:53.20]When a process fails to work as planned, you can also say it ran amok.
[02:59.68]This expression is more formal.
[03:03.44]Here is an example of this meaning of "haywire."
[03:08.64]"Urgh. Plans for my outdoor party just went haywire!
[03:13.40]The supermarket can't bring the birthday cake.
[03:16.04]The musicians refuse to play.
[03:18.20]There's no place to leave a car
[03:19.77]because of unannounced street repairs in front of my house.
[03:22.96]Oh ... great. And it's going to rain. It's going to rain hard!"
[03:28.96]But how did this simple farm word come to mean "go wild"?
[03:34.88]Language experts say there are two stories
[03:38.12]that help explain where this meaning came from.
[03:42.60]As we said earlier, Americans use haywire
[03:46.28]to describe a state of disorder, extreme messiness
[03:51.40]– in other words, a situation where everything seems to be going wrong.
[03:58.16]Years ago, farmers used haywire to temporarily fix a damaged fence, gate or barrier.
[04:07.00]But the wire was never a good choice for permanent repairs
[04:11.76]because it breaks down easily.
[04:15.04]The metal iron turns reddish brown and wears down
[04:18.96]when attacked by oxygen in the air or water.
[04:23.32]It other words, it rusts!
[04:26.56]This fact, however, did not stop people from using it for repairs.
[04:32.24]As a result, many fences and buildings
[04:35.92]where lots of wire were used for repairs look messy.
[04:41.32]They have gone haywire.
[04:44.80]Another story about "haywire" comes from the material itself.
[04:51.92]When you cut tightly wound wire, you should do so carefully.
[04:57.76]It can suddenly spring back at you like a snake.
[05:02.27]It can circle your body and then stab you with its sharp ends.
[05:08.92]This can happen quickly, often catching a person off guard.
[05:14.68]Word experts may not agree on the origin.
[05:18.52]But they can agree that anything that has "gone haywire,"
[05:22.92]has gone crazy or is a big, hot mess!
[05:27.84]And that's the end of this Words and Their Stories.
[05:31.76]I'm Anna Matteo. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
[05:33.60]I pushed the fool button
[05:38.30]My night went haywire
[05:40.41]I pushed the fool button
[05:43.82]Set my brain on fire
[05:46.46]Now I was sittin' in the corner of a very laid back bar
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