narcissism

英 ['nɑːsɪsɪz(ə)m; nɑː'sɪs-] 美['nɑrsɪ'sɪzəm]

英英释义实用场景例句

GRE畅通词汇

形容词: narcissistic;

narcissism 自恋，孤芳自赏

来自古希腊神话，英俊青年Narcissus拒绝了神界第一美女Echo的爱，却爱上了自己在水中的倒影，不幸溺水而死，后用于心理学名词，自恋，孤芳自赏。

narcissism (n.): 1905, from German Narzissismus, coined 1899 (in "Die sexuellen Perversitäten"), by German psychiatrist Paul Näcke (1851-1913), on a comparison suggested 1898 by Havelock Ellis, from Greek Narkissos, name of a beautiful youth in mythology (Ovid, "Metamorphoses," iii.370) who fell in love with his own reflection in a spring and was turned to the flower narcissus (q.v.). Coleridge used the word in a letter from 1822.
But already Krishna, enamoured of himself, had resolved to experience lust for his own self; he manifested his own Nature in the cow-herd girls and enjoyed them." [Karapatri, "Lingopasana-rahasya," Siddhanta, II, 1941-2]
Sometimes erroneously as narcism.

1. Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed or chronic show-offs.: 被自恋症折磨的人会变得只专注于自己的事情，或者不断地自我炫耀。

2. Freud first mentioned this concept in his paper'On Narcissism '.: 弗洛伊德在他的论文《论自恋》中首次提到了这个概念.

4. The collective narcissism of the Kerouac circle is ultimately boring.: 凯鲁亚克和他周围人物的集体自我陶醉欲最终使人厌烦不已.

5. This is not narcissism, but an otherworldly realm of life.: 这不是自我陶醉, 而是一种超凡脱俗的人生境界.