英语单词 | mania |
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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. |
柯林斯星级 | ★☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 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]
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]
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来源 | 2007.1 |
Tags: 单词::2007, 单词::阅读词库
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