mania

noun

1. （通常指许多人共有的）强烈的欲望，狂热，极大的热情
   an extremely strong desire or enthusiasm for sth, often shared by a lot of people at the same time
   1. He had a mania for fast cars.
      他是个飞车狂。
   2. Football mania is sweeping the country.
      足球热正风靡全国。
2. 躁狂症
   a mental illness in which sb has an obsession about sth that makes them extremely anxious, violent or confused

1. N-COUNT 狂热;癖好
   If you say that a person or group has a mania for something, you mean that they enjoy it very much or spend a lot of time on it.
   1. It seemed to some observers that the English had a mania for travelling...
      在某些观察家看来，英国人对旅行似乎抱有一种狂热。
   2. The media have a mania about rugby union.
      媒体格外青睐英式橄榄球联盟。
   3. ...Mozart mania.
      莫扎特热
2. N-UNCOUNT 躁狂症
   Mania is a mental illness which causes the sufferer to become very worried or concerned about something.
   1. ...the treatment of mania...
      对躁狂症的治疗
   2. He almost wouldn't eat at all and had the oddest manias.
      他几乎颗粒未进，走火入魔。

1. In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.
   晚年的时候，对宗教的狂热让他丧失心智。
2. It seemed to some observers that the English had a mania for travelling
   在某些观察家看来，英国人对旅行似乎抱有一种狂热。
3. The media have a mania about rugby union.
   媒体格外青睐英式橄榄球联盟。
4. He almost wouldn't eat at all and had the oddest manias.
   他几乎颗粒未进，走火入魔。
5. She's got poetry mania.
   她作诗入了魔了。
6. My religious mania, or whatever it was, is over.
   我的宗教狂热，无论你叫它什么，它已经成为过去了。
7. Kleptomania is a mania for stealing things.
   盗窃癖是一个偷东西的癖好。
8. The world has a new mania.
   现在世界上有一种新的狂热。
9. But Mania may know that this is not strictly true.
   但马涅也许知道，严格说来，这不是真的。
10. As anyone who reads the news knows, there's been a mania of mergers and acquisitions lately.
    任何看新闻的人都知道，最近出现了一次合并和购买的狂潮。
11. And investor demand has now reached mania levels.
    投资者需求如今已达到近乎狂热的水平。
12. The gold mania was just one aspect of a broader flight from financial to hard assets.
    黄金狂热只是投资者从金融资产逃向硬资产这一更广泛趋势的一个侧面。
13. Countries such as Germany and Japan have long had an export mania.
    长期以来，德国和日本等国一直对出口有一种痴迷。
14. We were driving at a good rate. He has a mania for ( driving) fast cars.
    我们的汽车开得很快。她有开快车的癖好。
15. Prescribed drugs to control the patient's periods of mania.
    开药方来控制病人的躁狂的阶段。
16. We could have done with more early scepticism of Enron and Bernie Madoff, of Wall Street, mortgage-backed securities and the dotcom mania.
    我们本可以及早对安然（enron）和伯纳德麦道夫（berniemadoff）、华尔街、抵押贷款支持证券以及网络狂热的问题提出更多怀疑。
17. Would you please tell us what Mania looks like?
    可以和我们说说马尼拉的样子吗？
18. The mania for economy had struck even here.
    节俭的狂热连这里也感受到了。
19. During the three years they've been together, Mark has showed only mild symptoms of mania or depression.
    在他们相处三年的日子里，马克只有一些轻微的躁狂和抑郁症状。
20. Bobo: Andy, you are a badminton mania, I only love swimming.
    波波：安迪，你是羽毛球迷，我只爱游泳。
21. However much one may loathe the idea, a private-sector financial mania will finish up as public-sector pain.
    不过，很多人可能会憎恶这个观点：私营部门的金融狂热最终将成为公共部门的痛楚。
22. A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression.
    精神紊乱特征是阶段性的狂热或抑郁。
23. A mania restricted to one thing or idea.
    对特定事物或想法的狂热爱好。
24. She could be suffering from schizophrenia, or mania, or substance abuse-among other diagnoses.
    在所有的诊断中，她可能患有精神分裂症，或是狂躁症，或是药物滥用。
25. What allowed this mania and these stories to persist as long as they did?
    是什么让这种狂热和这些故事持续了这么久？
26. The way she deals with her co-workers has an edge of mania.
    她和同事相处的方式处于颠狂的边缘。
27. The article describes the religious mania which is sweeping the us.
    文章记述了正风靡全美的宗教狂热。
28. I am convinced that only those with a mania to create will get the most out of life.
    我深信只有俱备创造狂热的人，始能从生活中得到最多的收获。
29. Sniff its bouquet, however, and the wine boom has hints of tulip mania.
    馥郁的酒香让人沉浸，然而，人们从中也嗅到了郁金香狂热（注①）的兆头。
30. Because of the market mania at the time, the two spoke in code.
    由于当时狂热的市场环境，两个人在谈话中使用代码。

noun

1. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

   Synonym:    passioncacoethes

2. a mood disorder

   Synonym:    manic disorder