小词详解 | mania
mania 英 [ˈmeɪniə] 美 [ˈmeɪniə]
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外刊例句
The mania for tech platforms that match cars with riders rests on the idea that they can turn car-hire into critical urban-transport infrastructure.
将车辆与乘客相匹配的技术平台受到狂热追捧的背后,是认为它们可以将汽车出租转变为关键的城市交通基础设施。
——《经济学人》Now Chinese chic has become Hollywood's latest mania. Ang Lee is an Oscar front runner for his first studio film, Sense and Sensibility.
好莱坞最近流行中国热,李安第一次替制片公司拍的《理智与情感》,就让他成为奥斯卡奖的热门人选。
——《时代周刊》
基本释义
[noun] mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity
[名词] 以极度兴奋或欣快、妄想和过度活跃周期发作为特征的精神疾病
深入解读
Mania 一词源自希腊语 mania (疯狂、狂热、热情、疯狂的激情、狂怒),14世纪末经晚期拉丁语 mania (精神失常、疯狂)进入英语后即用来表示心理学上的“躁狂症”,也就是一种以极度兴奋或欣快、妄想和过度活跃周期发作为特征的精神疾病。
等到了17世纪80年代后, mania 开始用来引申表示“狂热、热衷”,常用搭配 mania (for sth/for doing sth) 表示某种许多人共有的强烈欲望、极大热情,多指一种过分或不合理的欲望或热情,比如:
她是个飞车狂。
She has a mania for driving fast.他几乎颗粒未进,走火入魔。
He almost wouldn't eat at all and had the oddest manias.
此外,由 mania 而来的后缀 -mania 常用于构成名词表示“……狂、……癖、……热”,比如在 小词详解 | cynical 中出现过的 Beatlemania (甲壳虫热)。
名著用例
Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first.
金钱和所谓爱情,便是这个社会的两个狂欲,其中金钱尤为第一。
出自英国作家D·H·劳伦斯创作的最后一部长篇小说《查泰莱夫人的情人》(Lady Chatterley's Lover)。
同近义词
obsession: an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind
hysteria: exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people
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