acrophobia

GRE

英 [,ækrə'fəʊbɪə] 美[,ækrə'fobɪə]

释义

n. 恐高症，高处恐怖症

英文词源

acrophobia (n.): "morbid fear of heights," 1887, medical Latin, from Greek akros "at the end, the top" (see acrid) + -phobia "fear." Coined by Italian physician Dr. Andrea Verga in a paper describing the condition, from which Verga himself suffered.
In this paper, read somewhat over a year ago at the congress of alienists at Pavia, the author makes confession of his own extreme dread of high places. Though fearless of the contagion of cholera, he has palpitations on mounting a step-ladder, finds it unpleasant to ride on the top of a coach or to look out of even a first-story window, and has never used an elevator. ["American Journal of Psychology," Nov. 1888, abstract of Verga's report]

双语例句

1. Having heart disease, hypertension or acrophobia or feeling bad.: 患心脏病、高血压、恐高症者,身体感觉不适者.

2. She has acrophobia and always becomes dizzy in a high - rise elevator.: 她有恐高症,到了高楼的电梯里就发晕.

3. Claustrophobia and acrophobia in the same place, like two people in abed.: 反在那里,幽闭症和恐高症同时并存, 就像两小我睡反在一驰床上.