- 1瘋子；狂熱者（依語境）
A maniac is someone who acts in a wild, crazy, or out-of-control way — like 'a maniac driver' who drives too fast and . It can also be used more lightly and about someone who loves one thing so much that it seems extreme, like 'a fitness maniac' who exercises all the time.
From the word’s history
From French maniaque, from Late Latin maniacus, from Greek maniakos, from mania 'madness'.
借自法文 maniaque，出自希臘文 mania「瘋狂」。
組成from a Greek word meaning 'madness', plus an ending that means 'a person who is like this'.
同家族的字
- maniashares the same root, meaning a wild, out-of-control state or a very strong enthusiasm
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。
maniacnoun/ˈmeɪ.niˌæk/
- 1
An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.
- She was driving like a maniac.
- In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.
- 2
A fanatic, a person with an obsession.
- He's a manga maniac.
- She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she's never danced before
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- sex maniac
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