Fetishism is not the person — it is the pattern. In the sexual sense, it is when someone gets sexual feeling from an object, a material, a body part, or an activity that is not the usual centre of sex (shoes, leather, a certain fabric, and so on). The person who feels this way is a fetishist.

FetishismFetishism（戀物） is not the person指的不是那個人， it is the pattern而是那種模式。 In the sexual sense在性的意義上， it is when someone gets sexual feeling from an object, a material, a body part, or an activity that is not the usual centre of sex是指有人從一個物品、材質、身體部位，或不是性愛通常焦點的行為，獲得性方面的感覺 (shoes, leather, a certain fabric, and so on)（例如鞋子、皮革、某種布料等等）。 The person who feels this way有這種傾向的人， is a fetishist叫做fetishist。

Textbooks use the word in a careful, almost medical way; in ordinary talk it can sound more casual, and sometimes jokey.

Textbooks use the word in a careful, almost medical way教科書使用這個字時很謹慎，幾乎像醫學用語； in ordinary talk在日常對話裡， it can sound more casual, and sometimes jokey聽起來可能比較隨性，有時候還帶點開玩笑的味道。

Though actually, that is not where the word began. Earlier, fetishism named a religious idea: treating a made object as if it had power or a spirit.

Though actually不過其實， that is not where the word began這個字一開始不是從這裡來的。 Earlier更早以前， fetishism named a religious ideafetishism指的是一種宗教概念： treating a made object as if it had power or a spirit把人造的物品當成擁有力量或靈性一樣對待。

In serious writing you will still meet that older sense, and a looser modern one — an extreme, almost worshipful attachment to something that is not a god, as when writers talk about a fetishism of numbers or of money. Same family of meaning: treating a thing as if it were more than a thing.

In serious writing在正式的寫作裡， you will still meet that older sense你還是會遇到那個較舊的意思， and a looser modern one也會遇到一個較鬆散的現代用法—— an extreme, almost worshipful attachment to something that is not a god對不是神的東西，抱有一種極端、近乎崇拜的執著， as when writers talk about a fetishism of numbers or of money像作者談到對數字或金錢的迷戀時那樣。 Same family of meaning同一個意思家族： treating a thing as if it were more than a thing把一樣東西當成不只是東西那樣對待。