addict的意思

addict

英式音标['ædɪkt]
美式英标['ædɪkt]

基本解释

n. 有瘾的人；入迷的人

vt. 使沉溺；使上瘾

addict 上瘾

前缀ad-, 去，往。词根dict, 说，声称,同dictionary。该词词义众多，此处可能用于祈祷，信奉神灵，着迷。后指上瘾。比较devout, 虔诚的，词源同voice,声音，说话。

addict: addict: [16] Originally, addict was an adjective in English, meaning ‘addicted’. It was borrowed from Latin addictus, the past participle of addicere, which meant ‘give over or award to someone’. This in turn was formed from the prefix ad- ‘to’ and the verb dicere. The standard meaning of dicere was ‘say’ (as in English diction, dictionary, and dictate), but it also had the sense ‘adjudge’ or ‘allot’, and that was its force in addicere.
=> dictate, diction, dictionary
addict (v.): 1530s (implied in addicted), from Latin addictus, past participle of addicere "to deliver, award, yield; give assent, make over, sell," figuratively "to devote, consecrate; sacrifice, sell out, betray" from ad- "to" (see ad-) + dicere "say, declare" (see diction), but also "adjudge, allot." Earlier in English as an adjective, "delivered, devoted" (1520s). Related: Addicted; addicting.
addict (n.): 1909, in reference to morphine, from addict (v.).

2. The self-confessed drug addict was arrested 13 months ago.: 那个自己坦白的瘾君子在13个月前被逮捕。