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Mania Soccer Mental Describe Meiniə N.[医]颠狂,狂躁,癖好,狂热 Extreme Interest

英语单词 mania
英美音标 ['meiniə]
中文释义 n.[医]颠狂,狂躁,癖好,狂热
vocab简明 Mania is an extreme interest, desire, or craze. If you dye your dog's fur to match the colors of your favorite football team, you might be suffering from sportsmania.
vocab扩展 Mania has for centuries been associated with “madness” or “mental derangement.” It's still used in the mental health fields to mean the excitable, overactive phase of bipolar disorder or, as a suffix, to describe a compulsion, such as kleptomania (to steal) or pyromania (to set fires). More generally, it might be used as a suffix to describe enthusiasm, as in Beatlemania (The Beatles) or Pottermania (Harry Potter).
真题原句 Here are a few guesses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c) soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; d) none of the above.
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1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]狂热;癖好 If you say that a person or group has a mania for something, you mean that they enjoy it very much or spend a lot of time on it.
  [usu sing]
  • It seemed to some observers that the English had a mania for travelling...

    在某些观察家看来,英国人对旅行似乎抱有一种狂热。

  • The media have a mania about rugby union.

    媒体格外青睐英式橄榄球联盟。

  • ...Mozart mania.

    莫扎特热

2
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]躁狂症 Mania is a mental illness which causes the sufferer to become very worried or concerned about something.
  [also N in pl]
  • ...the treatment of mania...

    对躁狂症的治疗

  • He almost wouldn't eat at all and had the oddest manias.

    他几乎颗粒未进,走火入魔。

来源 2007.1

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