- 1酒精成癮；酒癮；酗酒（口語常說「酒精中毒」，但那也可指一次喝太多的急性中毒，和長期成癮不是同一件事）。
Alcoholism is the medical condition of being an alcoholic: not being able to control drinking. It is not 'having too much at a wedding'; it is when alcohol has a lasting hold — , not being able to stop, harm to health, work, or family. Doctors today often say alcohol use disorder, which covers a range from milder trouble to deep dependence. Though actually, everyday English still uses alcoholism and alcoholic, and those words can sound like a moral judgment even when the speaker means a medical problem. The word is serious and mostly neutral-to-formal: news, clinics, careful talk. It is not slang, and it is not a joke.
From the word’s history
From alcohol + -ism; New Latin alcoholismus chronicus, coined by Magnus Huss in 1849.
alcohol 加 -ism，由瑞典醫師 Huss 在 1849 年創用。
組成From alcohol + -ism. Derived from New Latin alcoholismus chronicus, coined by the Swedish professor of medicine Magnus Huss. Here -ism names a condition.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
alcoholismnoun/ˈælkə(ˌ)hɔˌlɪzəm/
- 1
A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning.
- chronic alcoholism
- struggle with alcoholism
- 2
medicinepathologysciencesAcute alcohol poisoning.
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