去年到欧洲出了一趟差，增援兄弟单位，来回共三天。而且行前准备周期极短，很匆忙，虽然只飞了八小时左右，但感觉挺折腾的。抵达后先去单位办理进门卡。
办卡要排队，排在我后面的是英国同事。
我看他跟我差不多，一脸迷蒙，像在梦游，于是问他：
Me: Are you alright?
Him: Yes, I suppose. And you?
Me: I'm totally spaced out.
Him: I know, same here. Discombobulated.
我脑海里立即浮现出 Olivia Colman 的形象：
那部电影我没看过，只知道她获奖了
为什么呢？
因为在这部电视剧里
The Night Manager
Colman 饰演的情报官最后抓到了大坏蛋 Hugh Laurie (I mean the badass arms dealer played by him)，她对垂头丧气的 Laurie 说：怎么样？铁证如山，赖也赖不掉！瞧你那样儿，还故作镇定，其实已经 discombobulated 了吧!
无独有偶，我写的那本小书里，也用过这个词：
《伙伴行》
用 confuse 或 disorientate 或 fluster 取代这个词，如何？也行，但戏谑的语气就没了。
So, next time I take a long-haul flight, descend from the clouds with my head populated by a nebulous haze and mope around on foreign soil in a bleary-eyed daze, I'll remember my discombobulated English colleague, the discombobulated Hugh Laurie... and my dog's discombobulated victims.
I'll then perk up and start eyeing the exotic peculiarities in wide-eyed wonderment... all thanks to this comically looking, ridiculously long and endearingly bombastic word:
Discombobulated!
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