| 单词 | night terrors |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnight terrors night terrors n. (a) gen. fears experienced during the night, or their causes; (b) Medicine (also night terror), a sleep disorder in which a person (esp. a child) suffers terrifying nightmares or wakes suddenly in the night in a state of inexplicable terror; this state of terror. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > [noun] > terror > children's sleeping terror night terrors1827 pavor nocturnus1889 1827 T. C. Grattan High-ways & By-ways 3rd Ser. II. v. 230 I have passed over, without an attempt at describing it, the torturing day he passed, because it was indescribable; and I only glance at his night terrors. 1842 W. Wordsworth Guilt & Sorrow xvii, in Poems Early & Late Years 13 Kind pious hands did to the Virgin build A lonely Spital, the belated swain From the night terrors of that waste to shield. 1892 J. Royce Spirit Mod. Philos. 241 Night-terrors, of a known pathological type. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 218 Many excellent monographs on night terrors have appeared. 1937 Discovery Dec. 369/1 It would be easy to dismiss these stories as mere figments of the black man's night-terrors. 1986 Sunday Times 4 May 9/2 Night terrors are generally phenomena of the early night, arising during very deep, slow-wave sleep. < as lemmas |
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