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
[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
(亦作 -ise)
语源
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.)