【claustrophobia】 - A-level备考词汇

claustrophobia

UK:  [.klɔːstrə'fəʊbiə]

US:  [.klɔstrə'foʊbiə]

n.

1.密室恐怖症

2.【心、医】幽闭〔独居〕恐怖症

1 . His fellow classmates laughed at his claustrophobia and often threatened to lock him in his room.
他的同学嘲笑他的幽闭，而且往往威胁要他锁在他的房间里。

2 . There was no cliff-edge vertiginous quality, no claustrophobia, no killing acoustic, no confusing of atmosphere with noise.
这里没有悬崖峭壁般头晕目眩，没有幽闭，没有使人疲惫的声响，没有噪音的混乱。

3 . Thick fog was all I could see out my window in the morning, and I could feel the claustrophobia creeping up on me.
大雾是所有我可以看到我的窗口在上午，我能感觉到幽闭攀升我。

4 . In one particularly acrobatic leap, he hints that Poe's time in his mother's sickly womb led him to write about claustrophobia.
作者还把笔锋一转，特别暗示坡在母亲虚弱的子宫内的日子导致了他在日后把幽闭恐怖症作为创作素材。

5 . But claustrophobia is the point: everyone is trapped, the plotters and plotted-against.
但幽闭恐惧症是其要点所在：每个人都落入了圈套，不管是阴谋者还是他们刺杀的目标。