1. 1有恐懼症的;恐懼症患者。

    Phobic is not the name of the fear itself — that name is . Phobic talks about the person or the quality. If you are phobic about heights, you have that strong, not-reasonable fear. As a noun, a phobic is a person who has a . You will also meet it stuck on the end of other words: claustrophobic, xenophobic. In careful talk it stays close to real fear; in loose talk people say they are “phobic” about something they only prefer to avoid. It can sound a little like hospital language, unless it is part of a long word everyone already knows.

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組成phobia + -ic

同家族的字

  • phobiathe fear itself; phobic is built from this word
  • claustrophobicsame -phobic ending, “having that kind of fear”

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。

phobicadj/ˈfəʊbɪk/

  • 1

    Relating to a phobia.

    • Anything can become a phobic stimulus.
  • 2

    Experiencing or expressing phobia (strong fear and/or dislike).

    • The mail carrier was phobic of dogs.
    • Even so, in many cases the homophobe truly is phobic of gays and lesbians, […]

phobicnoun/ˈfəʊbɪk/

  • 1

    A person who has a phobia.

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