Question

breaking bad什么意思?

Answer 1

From 维基词典

break bad有两种意思：

1. 事情或人的命运走下坡路, to go downhill.
   

2. 特指人变坏，（of a person）to go bad, to turn toward immorality or crime. 这来自于美国南方的俚语。
   

breaking bad这部美剧，作者Vince Gilligan说 break bad 的意思是 to raise hell , to raise hell的意思是饮酒狂欢。作者本身并不知道 break bad 在美国南方俚语中的意思。

下面这一段来自Time杂志：

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/23/breaking-bad-what-does-that-phrase-actually-mean/

Show creator Vince Gilligan has said that he had
thought it was a commonly used phrase when he decided to use it as a
title, not knowing that the expression was a Southern regionalism from
the area in Virginia from which he hails. It means “to raise hell,” he
says, as in “I was out the other night at the bar…and I really broke
bad.”