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kleptomania

英 [,kleptə(ʊ)'meɪnɪə]美 ['klɛptə'menɪə]

n. 盜竊癖

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記憶方法

1. klepto- (諧音“可樂扒(爬)偷、快樂扒(爬)偷、客落魄偷”).

中文詞源

kleptomania 偷盜癖

來自希臘語kleptein,偷盜，來自PIE*klep,偷盜，來自*kel的擴大形式，隱藏，覆蓋，詞源同cell,hole.-mania,發狂。

英語詞源

kleptomania (n.)

1830, formed from mania + Greek kleptes

"thief," from kleptein "to steal, act secretly," from PIE *klep- "to steal," an extention of root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell; cognate with Latin clepere "to steal, listen secretly to," Old Prussian au-klipts "hidden," Old Church Slavonic poklopu "cover, wrapping," Gothic hlifan "to steal," hliftus "thief"). Much-derided 19c. as a fancy term for old-fashioned thievery and an opportunity for the privileged to claim a psychological motive for criminal misbehavior.

There is a popular belief that some of the criminal laws under which the poor are rigorously punished are susceptible of remarkable elasticity when the peccadilloes of the rich are brought under judgment, and that there is some truth in the old adage which declares that "one man may steal a horse where another dare not look over the hedge." This unwholesome distrust is not likely to diminish if, in cases of criminal prosecutions where so-called respectable persons commit theft without sufficiently obvious motive for the act, they have their crime extenuated on the plea of kleptomania, as has recently occurred in several notable instances. ["Kleptomania," "The Lancet," Nov. 16, 1861]

權威例句

1. Kleptomania is a mania for stealing things.

盜竊癖是一種愛偷東西的躁狂症.

2. The millionaire who was caught shoplifting was found to be suffering from kleptomania.

那個因逛街時順手牽羊而被捉到的百萬富翁,被發現有盜竊癖.

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