- 1幽閉恐懼症
Claustrophobia is a strong fear of being shut in — a lift, a packed train, a tiny room with no window — or of a situation that leaves you little room to move, even if the walls are not real. The body can react: a fast heart, sweat, a need to get out. Doctors use it as the name of a real fear. Everyday people also borrow it more loosely: “I get claustrophobia in this office” may just mean they feel trapped, not that a doctor would give it that name. Though actually, that looser use is very common, and it helps to hear the difference: one is a condition, the other is a feeling people hang the word on. The sense we are writing covers both the tight space and the “I cannot move in my life” stretch.
組成From Latin claustrum, “a shut-in place,” from a Latin verb meaning to shut or confine, plus -phobia, “fear.” Doctors first wrote the word in the British Medical Journal.
同家族的字
- claustrophobicthe adjective: a space or a feeling that gives you this fear
- phobiathe shared piece that means a strong fear
原始詞典資料1 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。
claustrophobianoun/ˌklɒs.trəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
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The abnormal fear of closed, tight places.
- She complained of emaciation, nervousness, tenderness of the scalp, weakness of the back, claustrophobia, and other morbid fears.
- The first scenes, which take place in a minitheater that keeps shrinking, will be painful for anyone with even a tinge of claustrophobia.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。