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Phobia N 恐惧症 Fear Sense Begu Fəubjə 英

单词 phobia
音标 ['fəubjə]
解释 n. 恐惧症
红宝书 【英】 n. 恐惧症(an exaggerated illogical fear)
【记】 phob(恐惧)+ia;
【同】 参考:xenophobe(排 外)
【例】 Bill always stays at home because of his phobia for crowds.
字源 phobia (n.)
"irrational fear, horror, aversion," 1786, perhaps on model of similar use in French, abstracted from compounds in -phobia, from Greek -phobia, from phobos "fear, panic fear, terror, outward show of fear; object of fear or terror," originally "flight" (still the only sense in Homer), but it became the common word for "fear" via the notion of "panic, fright" (compare phobein "put to flight, frighten"), from PIE root *bhegw- "to run" (cognates: Lithuanian begu "to flee;" Old Church Slavonic begu "flight," bezati "to flee, run;" Old Norse bekkr "a stream"). Psychological sense attested by 1895.
不择手段背单词 n. 恐惧症
【记】phob恐惧, ia病;
【参】xenophobe(恐外者); acrophobia(n 恐高症)
趣味全助记 【记】音:发飙,你一发飙就令我恐惧

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