mania

英 [ˈmeɪniə]

美 [ˈmeɪniə]

n.  (通常指许多人共有的)强烈的欲望，狂热，极大的热情; 躁狂症

复数：manias　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14608 / COCA.12415

牛津词典

noun

• （通常指许多人共有的）强烈的欲望，狂热，极大的热情
  an extremely strong desire or enthusiasm for sth, often shared by a lot of people at the same time
  1. He had a mania for fast cars.
     他是个飞车狂。
  2. Football mania is sweeping the country.
     足球热正风靡全国。
• 躁狂症
  a mental illness in which sb has an obsession about sth that makes them extremely anxious, violent or confused

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 狂热;癖好
  If you say that a person or group has amania forsomething, you mean that they enjoy it very much or spend a lot of time on it.
  1. It seemed to some observers that the English had a mania for travelling...
     在某些观察家看来，英国人对旅行似乎抱有一种狂热。
  2. The media have a mania about rugby union.
     媒体格外青睐英式橄榄球联盟。
  3. ...Mozart mania.
     莫扎特热
• N-UNCOUNT 躁狂症
  Maniais a mental illness which causes the sufferer to become very worried or concerned about something.
  1. ...the treatment of mania...
     对躁狂症的治疗
  2. He almost wouldn't eat at all and had the oddest manias.
     他几乎颗粒未进，走火入魔。

英英释义

noun

• an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
  Synonym:passioncacoethes
• a mood disorder
  Synonym:manic disorder

双语例句

• In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.
  晚年的时候，对宗教的狂热让他丧失心智。
• Would you please tell us what Mania looks like?
  可以和我们说说马尼拉的样子吗？
• As anyone who reads the news knows, there's been a mania of mergers and acquisitions lately.
  任何看新闻的人都知道，最近出现了一次合并和购买的狂潮。
• We could have done with more early scepticism of Enron and Bernie Madoff, of Wall Street, mortgage-backed securities and the dotcom mania.
  我们本可以及早对安然（enron）和伯纳德麦道夫（berniemadoff）、华尔街、抵押贷款支持证券以及网络狂热的问题提出更多怀疑。
• Sniff its bouquet, however, and the wine boom has hints of tulip mania.
  馥郁的酒香让人沉浸，然而，人们从中也嗅到了郁金香狂热（注①）的兆头。
• We were driving at a good rate. He has a mania for ( driving) fast cars.
  我们的汽车开得很快。她有开快车的癖好。
• She could be suffering from schizophrenia, or mania, or substance abuse-among other diagnoses.
  在所有的诊断中，她可能患有精神分裂症，或是狂躁症，或是药物滥用。
• He almost wouldn't eat at all and had the oddest manias.
  他几乎颗粒未进，走火入魔。
• She's got poetry mania.
  她作诗入了魔了。
• The way she deals with her co-workers has an edge of mania.
  她和同事相处的方式处于颠狂的边缘。