megalomania
音标发音
- 英式音标 [,meg(ə)lə(ʊ)'meɪnɪə]
- 美式音标 [ˌmɛɡəloˈmeniə, -ˈmenjə]
- 国际音标 [,meɡələu'meiniə]
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基本解释
- n. [內科] 誇大狂;狂妄自大
英汉例句
- Yet this very megalomania seems to be both the secret to his longevity and to his unhinged nature.
然而,極度的狂妄自大似乎正是他長久統治和錯亂心智背後的原因。 - It seems that there is something advantageous in the megalomania that is his defining lifelong trait.
狂妄自大正是他長久統治的關鍵,看起來,這樣的品質似乎有些好処。 - But it is fairer to think of him as just a moderately violent thug with a touch of megalomania, whose goons club rivals, who closes newspapers, harasses judges and bans public meetings.
公平來講,它不過是一個有些狂妄自大的溫和派激進分子,他的爪牙都是糾集在一起的,與傳媒聯系緊密、能夠枉法裁判以及禁止公共集會的部縱。 - His megalomania did him in eventually, but at least he stopped the chaos for a while.
FORBES: Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution in the Age of Social Media - As director and star, Van Peebles contracts a bad case of pulp megalomania—he assumes epic postures as he photographs himself against the big sky.
NEWYORKER: Posse - The absurd freelance diplomacy is not the only hint of megalomania that makes a third Livingstone term look undesirable (he originally said he would seek only one).
ECONOMIST: The lesson of London's funny but sad mayoral election
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英英字典
- an unnaturally strong wish for power and control, or the belief that you are very much more important and powerful than you really are
- Megalomania is the belief that you are more powerful and important than you really are. Megalomania is sometimes a mental illness.
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专业释义
- 誇大狂
- 誇大狂
- 誇大妄想狂
- 自大狂