mania是什么意思,mania怎么用

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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》

—— 《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:

She has a mania for driving fast.她是个飞车狂。

He almost wouldn't eat at all and had the oddest manias.他几乎颗粒未进,走火入魔。

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

  • fad: an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze
  • 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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