偷窺狂、自戀狂、色情狂...各種「狂」英文怎麼說,一篇學會!

一個字根多字應用!(圖/Karl-Ludwig Poggemann@flickr)

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?

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 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。