pyromania
英 [,pa?r?(?)'me?n??]
美[,p??ro'men?r]
- n. 放火狂；縱火癖
GRE
中文詞源
pyromania 縱火狂
pyro-,火，-mania,發狂。
英文詞源
- pyromania (n.)
- 1840, from pyro- "fire" + mania "madness, frenzy." Used in German in the 1830s.
The propensity which leads an insane person to accomplish his purpose by burning, has been considered to merit particular notice, and to constitute a variety of monomania. Dr. Marc, of France, has published a memoir on the subject; he gives the name of pyromania to it, and considers that, like other insane propensities, it may be the result of instinct, or it may be the result of delusion--reasoning upon erroneous principles. [Alexander Morrison, M.D., "The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases," London, 1840]
An older word for it was incendiarism.
雙語例句
- 1. The Fourth of July domestic culinary pyromania is followed by community pyrotechnics.
- 七月四日,人們在家里食完人間煙火,接下去就是社區的煙花會.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. They have an analysis on action of pyromania in 44 criminal psychotic cases.
- 他們對44例精神病違法者的縱火行為進行了分析。
來自辭典例句
- 3. Methods psychogenic data of 44 pyromania with mental disorder were analysed.
- 方法分析44例精神障礙者的縱火行為.
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