音标
英 /æmˈniːziə/,美 /æmˈniːʒə/
词性与释义
n. [医学] 健忘症;记忆缺失,指部分或完全丧失记忆的病理状态
词源
源自希腊语 amnesia(遗忘),由前缀 a-(无)+ mnasthai(记忆)构成,与英语单词 "mind"(心智)同源 。
短语搭配
retrograde amnesia:逆行性遗忘症(丧失发病前的记忆)
anterograde amnesia:顺行性遗忘症(无法形成新记忆)
character amnesia:提笔忘字(特指忘记汉字写法的现象)
例句
After the accident he suffered periods of amnesia.(事故后他经历了几次失忆发作。)
The patient developed anterograde amnesia and could not remember new information.(患者出现顺行性遗忘症,无法记住新信息。)
Political amnesia combined with academic naivety is a dangerous thing.(政治健忘症与学术天真结合是危险的。)
Infantile amnesia refers to the inability to recall early childhood memories.(婴儿期遗忘症指无法回忆童年早期记忆。)
She has forgotten her name—she has amnesia.(她忘记了自己的名字,患有健忘症。)
The soldier recovered from amnesia and gradually remembered his identity.(士兵从失忆中恢复,逐渐记起身份。)
Source amnesia explains why people sometimes forget where they learned information.(来源遗忘症解释了为何人们有时忘记信息来源。)
Amnesia mercifully obliterated his memory of the accident.(健忘症幸运地抹去了他对事故的记忆。)
Neural maturation likely accounts for recovery from infantile amnesia.(神经成熟可能是婴儿期遗忘症恢复的原因。)
Let me suffer amnesia and disappear from your world.(就让我失忆,消失在你的世界里。)
衍生词汇
amnestic(adj.):健忘症的,引起遗忘的
amnesiac(n.):健忘症患者
记忆的本质或许就藏在“遗忘”的缝隙中——当我们谈论amnesia时,何尝不是在追问:何为不可磨灭