| 单词 | passion |
| 释义 | passion (once / 104 pages) n Passion is a strong emotion, usually related to love or anger. If on your first time out together your date falls on their knees and tells you they'd die for you — they're gripped by passion (or maybe just nuts). We associate passion with any intense feeling, but centuries ago it referred specifically to intense pain. The sufferings of religions martyrs, who were tortured and killed for their beliefs, were called "passions," from the Latin passio, or suffering. Today we've dropped the torture, and most of us, when we're not in the grip of passion, have a passion (or intense interest) — for things like gardening or golf or dollhouse architecture. WORD FAMILYpassion: dispassion, impassioned, passionless, passions+/impassioned: impassionedly, unimpassioned/passionless: passionlessly/unimpassioned: unimpassionedly USAGE EXAMPLESThe first 25 games or so are ruled by the passion and intensity of a nascent season. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) By intervening, however, the central government would risk reigniting the passions that flared in 2014 when demonstrators paralysed business districts with sit-ins for several weeks. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) And it was a chance to explore what drives this man and his passion for counseling and teaching hoops in this achingly beautiful land. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a strong feeling or emotion Syn|Hypo|Hyper passionateness infatuation a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration abandon, wildnessa feeling of extreme emotional intensity ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, firefeelings of great warmth and intensity storminessviolent passion in speech or action zealexcessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end feeling the experiencing of affective and emotional states 2n a feeling of strong sexual desire Hyper concupiscence, eros, physical attraction, sexual desire a desire for sexual intimacy 3n the trait of being intensely emotional Syn|Hypo|Hyper heat, warmth fieriness a passionate and quick-tempered nature emotionalism, emotionality emotional nature or quality 4n any object of warm affection or devotion he has a passion for cock fighting Syn|Hyper love object the focus of cognitions or feelings 5n something that is desired intensely Syn|Hyper rage desire something that is desired 6n an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action Syn|Hypo|Hyper cacoethes, mania agromania an intense desire to be alone or out in the open alcoholism, dipsomania, potomaniaan intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess egomaniaan intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs kleptomaniaan irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive logomania, logorrheapathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking monomania, possessiona mania restricted to one thing or idea necromania, necrophilia, necrophilisman irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies phaneromaniaan irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) pyromaniaan uncontrollable desire to set fire to things trichotillomaniaan irresistible urge to pull out your own hair irrational motive a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic Passion (once / 2180 pages) n WORD FAMILY Passion: Passions USAGE EXAMPLESPassions are flaring on social media and in online polls. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) In the St. John Passion, Bach’s art of holy dread assumes unprecedented dimensions. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) This school year, Tate’s Preparing for College and Careers class, in conjunction with an English 10 class, started an assignment called Project of Passion. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) n the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion Syn|Hyper Passion of Christ agony, excruciation, suffering a state of acute pain |
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