Go
单词

addiction

读音
əˈdɪkʃn
美式
英式
词根

"Addiction"的词根是拉丁文"addicere",意思是"向...讲话",后来演化成"向...承诺"或"向...奉献",最后变成了"上瘾"。

释义

n. 上瘾,沉溺;癖嗜 [ 复数 addictions ]

例句

She helped him fight his drug addiction.
她帮助了他对抗自己的毒瘾。
He has never conquered his addiction to smoking.
他从未戒除过烟瘾。
He needed money to feed his addiction to gambling.
他需要钱来满足他的赌瘾。

强化记忆

你可以联想到"ad-"(向)+ "diction"(话语),即“向某种事物频繁地‘讲话’”,可以理解为“频繁地向某种事物付出”,由此联想到“上瘾”。"Addiction"这个词最初用于描述一个人向法庭承诺将完成一项任务。在16世纪,该词开始被用来描述对某些行为的过度喜爱或者依赖。直到20世纪,这个词被广泛地应用到药物滥用的语境中。

看视频学发音
Regular smoking.Addiction.Decades of smoking.
and mental health challengesand addictionand even immigration status.
So let me as a question:why does addiction and the stigma of addictionmake it OK to undervalue human lives?
He spent most of his life battling alcoholism,depression, morphine addiction,and that life ended when he was just 34 years old.
And so I think, and I'm no longer having to hurt peopledue to my addiction."And I think that's critical.
所属分类

大学,出国,高中,专升本-自考,其他

所在词典

MBA联考十五年,大学英语六级近十年真题,北京成人本科学位英语,大学英语四级近六年,近十五年考研阅读真题,GRE填空及阅读机经,各省高考英语阅读真题近六年,广东专插本英语近十二年,河南专升本真题近十五年,江苏专转本十年真题,经济学人(The Economist),医学英语(The Language of Medicine),中科院考博真题