Think of an invisible rope tying a person to something: you want to walk away, but your body and your mind keep pulling you back, so stopping is not simply a matter of deciding to stop.

可以想成有一條看不見的繩子把人綁在某樣東西上:你明明想走開,身體和腦袋卻一直把你拉回去。addicted 描述的就是這個「被拉住」的狀態——重點不在你喜不喜歡它,而在於你已經沒辦法說停就停。

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addicted (substance) · adjective · B2

Not able to stop taking something harmful, especially a drug, because your body and mind have come to need it, even when you really want to stop.

成癮的;戒不掉的

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。

addictedadj/əˈdɪktɪd/

  • 1

    Having a biochemical addiction.

  • 2

    Devoted to or obsessed with something.

    • […] he was from his childhood addicted to study, and ever since he came to the use of reason so great a husband of his time, as not to let slip unoccupied the least fragment of it.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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