hectic['hektik]
汉语翻译
a. 脸上发红, 发热的, 潮热的, 肺病的
n. 脸红, 潮热病人
【医】 潮热的, 痨病的(热)
英语解释
形容词 hectic:
- marked by intense agitation or emotion同义词:feverish
例句
- The journalist lead a hectic life.新闻记者过着紧张兴奋的生活。
详细解释
hec.tic
adj.(形容词)Characterized by intense activity, confusion, or haste:忙乱的:以紧张的活动、忙乱或慌忙为特征的:例句:.There was nothing feverish or hectic about his vigor.(
Erik Erikson).他精力充沛但却毫不忙乱或狂热.(
埃里克·埃里克森)
Medicine Of, relating to, or being a fever that fluctuates during the day, as in tuberculosis or septicemia.
【医学】 发热病:一天之中体温不断波动的,如肺结核或败血病之症状,与其有关的,或是这种病的Consumptive; feverish.热病的:患结核病的;发烧的Flushed.(脸等)发红的
来源:Middle English
etik [recurring, consumptive] 中古英语
etik [复发的,患结核病的] from Old French
etique 源自 古法语
etique from Late Latin
hecticus 源自 后期拉丁语
hecticus from Greek
hektikos 源自 希腊语
hektikos from
hexis [habit] 源自
hexis [习惯] from
ekhein [to be in a certain condition] * see segh- 源自
ekhein [一定条件下] *参见 segh-
<注释>In the Usage Panel survey done for the first edition of the
American Heritage Dictionary (9'9), 92 percent of the Panel approved of the use of
hectic in its most familiar sense, .characterized by feverish activity, confusion, or haste..The question was put to the Panelbecause in earlier usage that sense was sometimes deprecated as a loose extension of the term`s meaning in medicine.Unless one has some medical knowledgeone probably does not know the older medical uses of the term,for example, .relating to an undulating fever, such as those accompanying tuberculosis,.and unless one has some acquaintance with Middle Englishone would not recognize the first recorded instance of the word,
etik, in a text written before 398. The Middle English term comes from the Old French development of the Late Latin word
hecticus, whose form helped reshape our word in the 'th century.Late Latin
hecticus in turn comes from Greek
hektikos, .formed by habit or forming habit. and .consumptive,. developing the last sense because of the chronic nature of tuberculous fevers.Thus a word that once simply meant .habitual.eventually had an English descendant used to refer to circumstances that would be undesirable if they were habitual.在针对
美国经典辞书 (9'9年)第一版对用法专题使用小组的调查中, 92%的成员赞成
hectic 一词最常用的意思, .以紧张的活动、忙乱或慌忙为特征的.。之所以要向这些成员提这个问题,是因为作为该词医学含义的模糊延伸,这个意义有时不为人们所接受。除非某人有医学方面的知识,否则他就很可能不知道这个词在医学方面的古老用法,比如.和起伏不定的热病有关的,如肺结核的伴随症.。另外,除非某人对中古英语有一度程度的了解,否则他也认不出398年以前的一个文本中该词的首例
etik 。 这个中古英语单词是由古法语经后期拉丁语
hecticus 一词的发展而来的, 其形式在'世纪帮助重新形成了这个单词。而后期拉丁语中的这个词
hecticus 又是由希腊语中的
hektikos 一词而来,这个词在希腊语中意指.由习惯形成的或形成习惯的.及.患肺痨的,肺痨的., 之所以得到最后的意思,是出于肺痨病的特性。这样一来,原来只是表示.习惯性的.这个词,传到英语中最后竟变成了指一旦成为习惯则不被人所喜爱的情形注释>