fanatic

fanatic
[fəˈnatɪk]
noun
  1. a person filled with excessive and rigidly single-minded zeal or enthusiasm, especially for an extreme religious or political cause
    (极端宗教或政治事业的)狂热者,痴迷者
    ■[often with modifier](informal)a person with an obsessive interest in and enthusiasm for something, especially an activity
    (非正式)(某项活动的)狂热者,痴迷者
    a fitness fanatic.
    健身迷。
adjective
  1. [attrib.]filled with or expressing excessive zeal
    痴迷的,狂热的;极端的
    his eyes had a fanatic iciness.
    他的目光极度冷峻。
派生
fanaticism
noun
fanaticize
verb
  1. (亦作 -ise)
语源
  1. mid 16th cent. (as an adjective): from French fanatique or Latin fanaticus 'of a temple, inspired by a god', from fanum 'temple'. The adjective originally described behaviour or speech that might result from possession by a god or demon, hence the earliest sense of the noun 'a religious maniac' (mid 17th cent.)
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