偷窺狂、自戀狂、色情狂...各種「狂」英文怎麼說,一篇學會!

2016-11-08 07:00

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偷窺狂、自戀狂、韓星狂…中文常常用「某某狂」來指某人對某事很狂熱!那在英文有這樣子的用法嗎?

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當然有!以「mania」結尾的英文單字就有這樣的意思!現在就讓我們來學學mania字尾的單字系列!一起來掌握最潮英文說法!

「Mania」Vocabulary「瘋狂」的單字:

aboulomania:意志缺失狂
agromania:曠野獨處癥
Beatlemania:崇拜「披頭四」(the Beatles) 樂隊的狂熱
bibliomania:藏書癖;珍本書收藏狂
choreomania:舞蹈狂
egomania:利己癖;自大狂
graphomania:書寫狂
hypermania:重躁狂癥
hypomania:輕度躁狂
kleptomania:竊盜癖
logomania:多言狂, 多言癖
mania:瘋狂;狂熱
maniac:狂熱的;瘋子;入迷者
megalomania:【醫】誇大狂;妄自尊大;權慾熏心
monomania:【醫】偏執狂;對一事的狂熱
micromania:微小狂;小体妄想
mythomania:渲染狂
nymphomania:【醫】女子淫狂;女色情狂
oniomania:購買癖
plutomania:豪富妄想, 豪富狂
pyromania:放火狂
theomania:宗教狂
toxicomania:服毒狂
xenomania:外國狂

參考例句:

English maniac

Jay Walker motivates everyone to start talking in English, and the frenzy to learn English has created a generation of "English Maniacs"!
傑伊·沃克激勵每個人開始用英語交談,而學英文的熱潮創造了一個世代的「英語狂」!

agoramania

In the movie Copycat,Sigourney Weaver plays a psychologist who is afraid of leaving her home,because she suffers from a server case of agoraphobia.The condition is the complete opposite of agoramania,and affects more than one million Americans.
在《 兇手就在門外 》的電影中,雪歌妮·薇佛扮演一位有因為有嚴重的廣場恐懼症而不敢出門的心理學家。該症狀是曠野獨處癥的完全相反,也影響一百萬以上的美國人。

egomania

Egomania is a condition that is commonly associated with narcissism. An egomaniac also often suffers from an unrealistic sense of grandiosity.
自大狂是通常與自戀有關的病症。一個自大狂也經常有不實際的自我浮誇感覺。

kleptomania

In San Mateo, California, Dusty the "Klepto Kitty" is a famous snowshoe cat with a serious problem of petty theft, therefore, it must be suffering from feline kleptomania.
在美國加州聖馬刁,竊盜貓「小灰」是一只著名的患有有嚴重的偷小東西的毛病的雪鞋貓,因此,它一定有貓咪盜竊癖患。

nymphomania

A nymphomaniac possesses insatiable sexual appetite.
女色情狂擁有無法滿足的性慾。

pyromania

Pyromaniacs have the tendency to intentionally start fires to express their emotions outward, cause harm, and attract attention.
放火狂有用故意縱火的來向外表達自我的情緒的傾向,造成他傷與吸引注意力。

xenomania

Different cultures have different attitudes toward foreign influences. Some nations have always been xenophobic, while some nations have developed an unreasonable craze for foreigners and foreign fashions, and relish in a state of xenomania.
不同的文化對外國的勢力有不同的態度。有一些國家一直排外,而有一些國家已經逐漸養成了對外來的人與外來的風氣不合理狂熱,並沈迷於一股氣的外國狂中。

補充:字根是phobia的都與「恐懼」有關

文/王傳瑄
資料來源:Wikipedia
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