Mania

(noun.) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.

(noun.) a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently.

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• For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• That is a costly mania for a manufacturer. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• My dear Roylands, said Crispin impatiently, Caliphronas and his past life is becoming quite a mania with you. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He was wishing to get the better of his attachment to herself, she just recovering from her mania for Mr. Elton. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• There is positively a mania among some of them for sending it to England. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• On the one hand he's had religious mania, and on the other, he is fascinated by obscenity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I am almost certain that it is trash; but I will be still more assured, lest the mania of scribbling should in some moment of poverty attack me again. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He has a mania for shooting people. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• An examination showed she had indeed developed mania of a dangerous and permanent form. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Occasionally he recognizes the wilful character of politics: then he shakes his head, climbs into an ivory tower and deplores the moonshine, the religious manias and the passions of the mob. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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