Fetish

(noun.) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; 'made a fetish of cleanliness'.

(noun.) a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body; 'common male fetishes are breasts, legs, hair, shoes, and underwear'.

手打:利

• FETISH In the morning Gerald woke late. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• More than any other fetish it has ruined our sense of political values by glorifying the pharisee with his vain cruelty to individuals and his unfounded approval of himself. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He remembered the African fetishes he had seen at Halliday's so often. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• People nowadays were too busy--busy with reforms and movements, with fads and fetishes and frivolities--to bother much about their neighbours. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

整理:洛厄尔