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≫
- nostalgia one's
- 郷愁に悩む，ホームシックになる
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 Something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia.‘an evening of TV nostalgia’
- 1.1 Something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of 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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