hysteria
英 [h?'st??r??]
美[h?'st?r??]
- n. 癔病，歇斯底里；不正常的興奮
暢通詞匯GRE低頻詞
助記提示
1. 音譯“歇斯底里”，相信很多人都不知道“歇斯底里”是個外來詞。
中文詞源
hysteria 歇斯底里，情緒失控
來自hysterical,歇斯底里的，-ia,疾病后綴。
英文詞源
- hysteria
- hysteria: [19] Greek hustérā meant ‘womb’ (it is related to Latin uterus ‘womb’). The adjective derived from it was husterikós ‘suffering in the womb’. This passed into Latin as hystericus, which formed the basis of the modern Latin noun hysteria, a term coined in the 19th century for a neurotic condition supposedly peculiar to women (in popular parlance it was called ‘the vapours’). Hysterectomy ‘surgical removal of the womb’ dates from the late 19th century.
=> uterus - hysteria (n.)
- 1801, coined in medical Latin as an abstract noun from hysteric (see hysterical) + abstract noun ending -ia.
雙語例句
- 1. All the lights went off, and mass hysteria broke out.
- 所有的燈都熄滅了，大家都變得歇斯底里起來。
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- 2. There's a very thin dividing line between joviality and hysteria.
- 激動和歇斯底里之間就一線之隔。
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- 3. No one could help getting carried away by the hysteria.
- 所有人都不由自主地受到狂熱情緒的感染。
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- 4. He could whip a crowd into hysteria.
- 他能讓一群人變得歇斯底里。
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- 5. His voice teetered on the edge of hysteria.
- 他的聲音近乎歇斯底里。
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