2012_03_18 Brisance n. 爆炸威力The shattering effect of a high explosive.

Word of the Day for Sunday, March 18, 2012
brisance \bri-ZAHNS\, noun:
The shattering effect of a high explosive.
The 'There' turned out to be crucial for the sense of brisance and closure and resolving issues of impotent rage and powerless fear that like accrued in Lenz all day being trapped in the northeastern portions of a squalid halfway house all day fearing for his life, Lenz felt.
 -- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
But this was sustained explosion, reaching now and then a quite unendurable brisance. Yet he endured it, not so much because it was her will as, unbelievably, what had become her need.
 -- Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
Brisance is a relatively new English word. It started being used commonly in the 1910s, but it can be traced to the Celtic word brissim meaning "to break."
爆炸威力\ BRI-ZAHNS\，名詞：

驚天動地的高爆炸藥的效果。

“”原來是無能的憤怒和無能為力的恐懼像楞累計整天被困在一個骯髒的中途之家的東北部分，整天擔心他的生命的爆炸威力和封閉感和解決問題的關鍵，倫茨感覺。
- 大衛·福斯特·華萊士，無限開玩笑

但是，這是持續的爆炸，達到了一個相當難熬的爆炸威力，現在，然後。然而，他忍受了它，沒有那麼多，因為這是她的，令人難以置信的，什麼已成為她的需要。
- 托馬斯品欽，反對日

猛度是一個相對較新的英文單詞。它在1910年代開始被使用普遍，但它可以追溯到凱爾特人字brissim，意思是“打破。”