| 单词 | mid-life crisis |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmid-life crisis mid-life crisis n. an emotional crisis of self-confidence or identity that can occur in early middle age, associated with the idea that one is growing old or that life is passing one by; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun] > middle age > emotional crisis mid-life crisis1965 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of > experienced in middle age mid-life crisis1965 1965 E. Jaques in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 46 502/1 Less familiar perhaps, though nonetheless real, are the crises which occur around the age of 35—which I shall term the mid-life crisis—and at full maturity around the age of 65. 1972 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. iv. 10/3 There is a marked increase in the death rate between the ages of 35 to 40 for employed men, apparently as a result of this ‘mid-life crisis’. 1986 J. Thompson Half Way 11 I am now middle-aged, and can begin to look back on what was for me a midlife crisis. 1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 11 Jan. 38/3 Japan's near-term future has all the makings of a full-blown midlife crisis. 2004 D. A. Westbrook City of Gold vii. 129 Midlife crises are more than volatile efforts men make to deny an existential realization of their own mortality. < as lemmas |
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