Mania
['meɪnɪə] or ['menɪə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
(noun.) a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently.
詹尼弗編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.
(n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.
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同義詞及近義詞:
[n. missing?] [1]. Raging madness, violent insanity.[2]. Vehement desire.
丹尼尔編輯
解釋/意思:
n. violent madness: insanity: excessive or unreasonable desire.—n. Mā′niac a person affected with mania: a madman.—adj. raving mad.—adj. Maniacal (ma-nī′a-kal).—adv. Manī′acally.
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例句/造句/用法:
- For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- That is a costly mania for a manufacturer. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- My dear Roylands, said Crispin impatiently, Caliphronas and his past life is becoming quite a mania with you. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He was wishing to get the better of his attachment to herself, she just recovering from her mania for Mr. Elton. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- There is positively a mania among some of them for sending it to England. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- On the one hand he's had religious mania, and on the other, he is fascinated by obscenity. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I am almost certain that it is trash; but I will be still more assured, lest the mania of scribbling should in some moment of poverty attack me again. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He has a mania for shooting people. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- An examination showed she had indeed developed mania of a dangerous and permanent form. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Occasionally he recognizes the wilful character of politics: then he shakes his head, climbs into an ivory tower and deplores the moonshine, the religious manias and the passions of the mob. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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