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An aquaholic is a joking name for someone who drinks a great deal of water every day — bottle after bottle, as if they cannot stop. It is not a doctor’s word and not a real illness. English built it the same way as workaholic: take the -holic ending that people hear in alcoholic (someone who cannot stop drinking alcohol) and stick it onto aqua-, a piece that means “water”. The tone is playful, a little headline, a little gym-and-wellness. You might say it about a friend who always has a huge bottle on the desk, or about yourself, with a smile. Though actually, some people stretch it toward anyone who loves being in water, but the core joke is about drinking water, not about swimming. You would not put it in a serious school essay unless you were clearly being funny.
戲稱「超愛喝水、一天喝很多水的人」。不是病名。台灣日常多半直接說「他超愛喝水」,沒有真正固定的詞。
組成From aqua- (“water”) + -holic (the ending taken from alcoholic, used to mean “can’t stop doing this”).
同家族的字
- alcoholic-holic is clipped from this word and reused as a joking “addicted to…” ending
- workaholicthe same playful -holic pattern
- aquariumshares aqua-, the “water” piece
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
aquaholicadj
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Addicted to water.
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Of a place, or person, that consumes more than the average amount of water.
- It is aquaholic, chronically so. With one-fifth as much water as the East, its withdrawal depletions are four times as great.
aquaholicnoun
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A person who is addicted to consuming too much water.
- Andrew Else was an aquaholic for 30 years, an inquest into his death heard. Yesterday his brother, Stephen, said he should not have been left alone near free-flowing water.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。