- 1僵直的、不能動也不能說話；（醫學）緊張症的。口語有人用來形容嚇呆或累到當機，但醫院裡指的是更嚴重的狀態。別聯想到「僵直性脊椎炎」，那是另一種病。
If someone is catatonic, the body has almost stopped answering. They may not move, not talk, not even change their face, because of a serious illness of the mind, or because a shock has hit them very hard. In hospital language this belongs with catatonia: a medical state, not ordinary shyness, and not 'feeling a bit tired.' Though actually, outside the hospital people stretch the word. They say they were catatonic on the sofa to mean they sat there stunned, or too exhausted to get up. That looser use is common, but it is a joke or an beside the real medical meaning, which is much heavier.
組成From catatonia, the medical name for this state. The older Greek pieces are kata- ('down') and a root for tension or 'tone' in the body.
同家族的字
- catatoniathe noun for the medical condition this adjective describes
原始詞典資料3 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。
catatonicadj/kæ.təˈtɑn.ɪk/
- 1
medicinesciencesOf, relating to, or suffering from catatonia; having a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
- However, he was looking a lot more catatonic and depressed before and sometimes we find that on the anti-depressants you remove the depression and uncover the paranoid stuff and we may have to give him larger quantities of tranquilizers just to tone this down.
- It was plausible that Cara became more catatonic in order to avoid a painful and overwhelming confrontation with terrifying but repressed memories of child abuse.
- 2
Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.
- He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.
- Further and further he would withdraw from the world, becoming more and more catatonic — withdrawing completely from his hateful world to the only real and secure comfort he had ever known, the womb.
catatonicnoun/kæ.təˈtɑn.ɪk/
- 1
medicinesciencesA patient in a state of catatonia.
- An inspection of Table IV shows that the catatonics have the lowest mean reversal score of all the groups.
- I thought of children released from school; I thought of spring-awakenings after winter-sleeps; I thought of the Sleeping Beauty; and I also thought, with some foreboding, of catatonics, suddenly frenzied.
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