英汉词典

nostalgia 基本解释

• n. 乡愁；怀旧之情；怀乡病

nostalgia 词态变化

nostalgia 中文词源

来自希腊语nostos,回家，家乡，来自PIE*nes,我们，词源同nostrum,our,us.引申词义我们的家，家园，-algia,疾痛，痛苦，词源同neuralgia,myalgia.引申词义思乡，怀旧。

nostalgia 英文词源

nostalgia

nostalgia: [18] Etymologically, nostalgia is pain connected with returning home – in other words, homesickness. It is a modern coinage, based ultimately on Greek nostos ‘homecoming’ and algos ‘pain, grief’ (as in analgesic [19] and neuralgia (see NEURAL)). At first it was used as the name of what was regarded virtually as a form of mental illness (the earliest known record of it is in the journal kept by the botanist and explorer Joseph Banks on Captain Cook’s round-the-world voyage, in which he noted (1770) that most of the ship’s company were ‘now pretty far gone with the longing for home which the Physicians have gone so far as to esteem a disease under the name of Nostalgia’).

The milder present-day connotations of wistful longing for a past time emerged in the early 20th century.

nostalgia (n.)

1770, "severe homesickness considered as a disease," Modern Latin, coined 1668 in a dissertation on the topic at the University of Basel by scholar Johannes Hofer (1669-1752) as a rendering of German heimweh (for which see home + woe). From Greek algos "pain, grief, distress" (see -algia) + nostos "homecoming," from PIE *nes- "to return safely home" (cognate with Old Norse nest "food for a journey," Sanskrit nasate "approaches, joins," German genesen "to recover," Gothic ganisan "to heal," Old English genesen "to recover"). French nostalgie is in French army medical manuals by 1754.

Originally in reference to the Swiss and said to be peculiar to them and often fatal, whether by its own action or in combination with wounds or disease. By 1830s the word was used of any intense homesickness: that of sailors, convicts, African slaves. "The bagpipes produced the same effects sometimes in the Scotch regiments while serving abroad" [Penny Magazine," Nov. 14, 1840]. It is listed among the "endemic diseases" in the "Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine" [London, 1833, edited by three M.D.s], which defines it as "The concourse of depressing symptoms which sometimes arise in persons who are absent from their native country, when they are seized with a longing desire of returning to their home and friends and the scenes their youth ...." It was a military medical diagnosis principally, and was considered a serious medical problem by the North in the American Civil War:

In the first two years of the war, there were reported 2588 cases of nostalgia, and 13 deaths from this cause. These numbers scarcely express the real extent to which nostalgia influenced the sickness and mortality of the army. To the depressing influence of home-sickness must be attributed the fatal result in many cases which might otherwise have terminated favorably. ["Sanitary Memoirs of the War," U.S. Sanitary Commission, N.Y.: 1867]

Transferred sense (the main modern one) of "wistful yearning for the past" first recorded 1920, perhaps from such use of nostalgie in French literature. The longing for a distant place also necessarily involves a separation in time.

nostalgia 英文释义

1. longing for something past

nostalgia 双语例句

1. The images provoked strong surges of nostalgia for the days of yore.

这些影像勾起了对昔日时光的强烈怀念。

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2. Many people look back with nostalgia to feudal times.

许多人留恋不舍地回顾封建时代.

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3. She wallows in nostalgia for the past.

她沉湎于对过去的怀恋.

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4. There is an unmistakable note of nostalgia in his voice when he looks back on the early years of the family business.

他回忆早些年的家族生意时，无疑是带着一种怀旧的语气的。

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5. He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.

也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。

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nostalgia 实用场景例句

a sense/wave/pang of nostalgia

怀旧感；一阵强烈的怀旧之情

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She is filled with nostalgia for her own college days.

她对自己的大学时代充满了怀念之情。

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nostalgic memories

引起怀旧之情的回忆

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I feel quite nostalgic for the place where I grew up.

我很怀念我成长的地方。

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to look back nostalgically to your childhood

缅怀童年时光

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He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth...

也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He discerned in the novel an air of Sixties nostalgia.

他在小说里感受到一种20世纪60年代的怀旧氛围。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He had a sudden nostalgia for Africa.

一股怀念非洲的离别情意油然而生.

辞典例句

Tell about the 90's pop music ah. I would like to hear nostalgic nostalgia.

介绍一下90年代的流行歌曲啊. 我想听听,怀旧怀旧.

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Raising my head , I see the moon so bright ; withdrawing my eyes , my nostalgia comes around.

举头望明月, 低头思故乡.

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The sight inspired him with nostalgia.

这景象激起了他的怀旧之情.

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But Jeffrey's nostalgia seemsespecially intense , and it carries a hint of the food chauvinism.

但杰弗里的相思病却几乎到了病入膏肓的程度, 颇有恶化成食物沙文主义的迹象.

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No nonsense about emotions, nostalgia or image. No obsequious talk to persuade Swedes in doubt.

抛开情感 、 怀旧情绪或形像不谈, 也不提用讨好性的言辞来说服心存怀疑的瑞典人.

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Is this a feeling against the pass of the history or nostalgia for the colonial ages?

是被历史前行的节奏甩在背后的无助,还是对殖民岁月的依恋?

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Central bankers must already be looking back on recent sunny uplands with a touch of nostalgia.

中行的银行家们应该已经充满了怀旧地开始回忆阳光普照的高原美景了.

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Paul is into nostalgia and all the jazz.

保罗处在怀旧的这样的一些心境之中.

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May nostalgia blossom! Long live our happy golden era!

五月怀旧开花! 向我们的幸福黄金时代万岁!

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Many people look back with nostalgia to feudal times.

许多人留恋不舍地回顾封建时代.

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With greater prosperity, Asian professionals started to feel nostalgia for the past.

随着进一步的繁荣, 亚洲的专业人士开始产生怀旧的表绪.

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Advice is a form of nostalgia.

忠告是一种怀旧情怀.

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She wallows in nostalgia for the past.

她沉湎于对过去的怀恋.

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But for some, all the festivities and the commotion cannot erase the nostalgia.

但是, 所有的宴席和狂欢都不能抹去乡愁.

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He mostly performed what islanders call morna music, singing about nostalgia, love, loss and sacrifice.

他演奏的大多数歌曲被岛内人称为摩纳音乐, 唱的是乡愁, 爱情, 失去和牺牲.

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A journey by steam train evokes more nostalgia and romance than any other way of traveling.

乘坐蒸汽火车比起任何其他旅行方式更能唤起怀旧与浪漫之情.

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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

这年头,连怀旧都不如从前够味儿了.

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The Poles find Russian nostalgia for the Soviet empire not just baffling, but worrying.

同样,波兰人一想到俄罗斯人如此怀念苏联帝国,不仅大为困惑, 更是忧心忡忡.

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Nostalgia alone cannot explain the success of the cupcake.

怀旧情怀本身不足以说明杯子蛋糕为何成功.

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Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

怀旧之情能使美好的旧时光更美好.

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The gossip items and tabloid nostalgia trips are almost a joke to him now.

以前有关他的那些流言蜚语和小报上刊登的耸人听闻的消息,现在在他眼里几乎成了笑话.

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