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Hi everyone, and welcome to our fun segment called It Means What? Hello, 安澜.

Hi, Lulu, hi, everyone.

欢迎回来这个非常有意思的小版块词《源考古研究所》where we talk about interesting origin stories of words, phrases and idioms. So 安澜, what is the word or the phrase for today?

I don't know what are we gonna do.  I ...I don't know, I really just don't know. 

Stop panicking.

There we go.  

So that was all an act because you do that so often...?

Partly, yes.

所以我们今天要讨论的就是panic这个词是吗?

Yes.

Panic是恐慌的意思. It's already a very, very short word. It's p-a-n-i-c, I didn't realize there is an origin story.

Yes, there is. It comes from Greek mythology.

希腊神话。Who are we talking about?

We're talking about the Greek God Pan.

Is he the one with like this weird...half animal.

Yes.

潘神可能有的小伙伴在什么游戏或者说电影里面看到过这个Greek God Pan. He's not like a major god, he's like a minor God.

He's a god of nature who lives in the woods.

So he's not a particularly important god. He's one of these spirits or gods that just live in forests and woods.

It's kind of like a demigod

他不是major god, 不是那种主神, 就是古希腊神话里面的主神, 但它是属于有点类似于spirit, and a god of nature and the wild.

Yes, so according to the myths, Pan's voice was so powerful that even scared the gods themselves.

So when people and gods and animals heard his voice, it cause them to panic.

Yeah, I've heard of another story saying that it was like a tale of war when Pan sort of helped his friend by letting out a shriek... a shrieking sound that sort of scared away his friend’s enemies. Yeah, so cause people to panic.

其实panic就是从潘神这里出来的一个名词, 就是说it's kind of like affected by Pan.

So for example, you can say something causes panic or someone is panicking.

Yeah, in that sense it can also be used as a verb, for example, 安澜 likes to panic.

Yes,  that is true.