2018年10月3日 星期三

nostalgia 郷愁?

nostalgia 郷愁?思鄉 (離家不適症)?


Today, we think of nostalgia as a pleasurable state of being. But in the 19th century, it was considered a terminal condition. During the American civil war, doctors scribbled the word on dozens of death certificates
我的確在美國內戰的文章看過將死亡證明書中nostalgia 翻譯成郷愁

nostalgia
名]U郷愁,(…への)ノスタルジア≪for
    • suffer from nostalgia for one's home
    • 郷愁に悩む,ホームシックになる


nostalgia

NOUN

mass noun
  • 1A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.
    ‘I was overcome with acute nostalgia for my days at university’
    1. 1.1 Something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia.
      ‘an evening of TV nostalgia’

Origin

Late 18th century (in the sense ‘acute homesickness’): modern Latin (translating German Heimweh ‘homesickness’), from Greek nostos ‘return home’ + algos ‘pain’.

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