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A kleptomaniac is a person with : someone who keeps stealing because of that inner drive, not because they have a plan to get rich. Though actually, calling someone a kleptomaniac in casual talk is often just a sharp joke — “Don't leave her alone with the .” That everyday use is looser than the doctor's use, and it can hurt if the person is really struggling. In careful English it stays a serious label, not a personality type you pin on a child who took an .
有竊盜癖的人
組成From Ancient Greek kléptō, “I steal,” plus -maniac, “a person with a mania.”
同家族的字
- kleptomaniathe condition this person has
- maniacthe same “person with a mania” ending
原始詞典資料1 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。
kleptomaniacnoun/ˌklɛptəˈmeɪniæk/
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One who steals compulsively.
- “A kleptomaniac,” I said. “Which means, if the term is not familiar to you, a chap who flits hither and thither pinching everything he can lay his hands on. [...] And if ever a man needed to be constantly under an eye, it's the above kleptomaniac. [...] He pinches things. Everything that isn't nailed down is grist to his mill.”
- The dear old room was just as I'd left it, nothing changed, and my first move, of course, was to procure another chair and give the top of the armoire the once-over. It was a set-back to find that the cow-creamer wasn't there. I suppose these kleptomaniacs know a thing or two and don't hide the loot in the obvious place.
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。