acrophobia
英 [,?kr?'f??b??]
美 [,?kr?'fob??]
英文詞源
- acrophobia (n.)
- "morbid fear of heights," 1887, medical Latin, from Greek akros "at the end, the top" (see acrid) + -phobia "fear." Coined by Italian physician Dr. Andrea Verga in a paper describing the condition, from which Verga himself suffered.
In this paper, read somewhat over a year ago at the congress of alienists at Pavia, the author makes confession of his own extreme dread of high places. Though fearless of the contagion of cholera, he has palpitations on mounting a step-ladder, finds it unpleasant to ride on the top of a coach or to look out of even a first-story window, and has never used an elevator. ["American Journal of Psychology," Nov. 1888, abstract of Verga's report]
雙語例句
- 1. Having heart disease, hypertension or acrophobia or feeling bad.
- 患心臟病 、 高血壓、恐高癥者,身體感覺不適者.
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- 2. She has acrophobia and always becomes dizzy in a high - rise elevator.
- 她有恐高癥,到了高樓的電梯里就發暈.
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- 3. Claustrophobia and acrophobia in the same place, like two people in abed.
- 反在那里,幽閉癥和恐高癥同時并存, 就像兩小我睡反在一馳床上.
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- 4. Many people suffer from very serious acrophobia.
- 許多人患有嚴重的恐高癥.
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- 5. I wish to overcome acrophobia.
- 我想要克服懼高癥.
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