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Galvanism is an older scientific name for electricity that you get from chemicals, the kind a battery makes. It is named after Luigi Galvani, an Italian scientist who made frogs’ legs twitch with electric current. Though actually, everyday English almost never uses this word now. People say electricity, or they talk about a battery. You will meet galvanism in the history of science, or in older books. It is not the daily word for power coming out of a wall, and it is not a person’s sudden energy — that everyday feeling is a different, looser use of related words like .
伽凡尼電、化學電（電池那種用化學產生的電；舊科學用語）
組成From French galvanisme, after the physiologist Luigi Galvani (1737–1798) + -isme. On the surface: galvano- + -ism.
同家族的字
- galvanizeverb from the same Galvani name
- galvanisethe British spelling of that verb
- galvanizedthe -ed form; often zinc-coated metal
- galvanicthe adjective from the same name
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。
galvanismnoun/ˈɡælvəˌnɪzəm/
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The chemical generation of electricity.
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The (therapeutic) use of electricity directly applied to the body.
- Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.
- The sudden application of galvanism to bands of savages may fairly rank as a new sensation, and they, thinking the wire held this strange and mysterious power, wisely left it alone.
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。