我們平時(shí)說(shuō)某人行為做事很愚蠢，可能會(huì)用“沒(méi)腦子”或者說(shuō)某人的腦子是某種動(dòng)物的腦子，總之，就不是正常的human brain。在英語(yǔ)里，他們把“愚蠢的”行為稱為harebrained（野兔腦子），估計(jì)跟咱們說(shuō)的“豬腦子”意思差不多。至于后來(lái)為什么演變成hairbrained，看了下面的解釋就明白了。

The first use of harebrained dates to 1548. The spelling hairbrained also has a long history, going back to the 1500s when hair was a variant spelling of hare. The hair variant was preserved in Scotland into the 18th century, and as a result it is impossible to tell exactly when people began writing hairbrained in the belief that the word means "having a hair-sized brain" rather than "with no more sense than a hare."

Harebrained的用法最初見(jiàn)于1548年。而hairbrained這個(gè)拼法也有很長(zhǎng)的歷史，可以追溯到16世紀(jì)，那時(shí)候hair是hare的另一種拼法。蘇格蘭一直將hairbrained這個(gè)拼法保留到18世紀(jì)，因此，人們到底從什么時(shí)候開(kāi)始使用hairbrained，意即“頭發(fā)絲那么細(xì)的腦子”，來(lái)取代原本表示“跟野兔一樣沒(méi)腦子”的harebrained也就無(wú)從考證了。

While hairbrained continues to be used, it should be avoided in favor of harebrained which has been established as the correct spelling.

雖然hairbrained還在繼續(xù)使用，但是，既然harebrained是最初的正確拼法，我們就應(yīng)該避免這種混淆使用的情況。

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